Promoting Math in Young Children: Leveraging Pediatric Clinics to Reach Underrepresented Children in Rural Communities (MATH)

Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU)

Status

Enrolling

Conditions

Early Math Learning

Treatments

Other: TipsbyText Messages

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT05884541

1021594

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goals of this clinical trial to examine how pediatricians prescribing early math enriching texts to the parents of their patients affects the early math skills of under-resourced pre-kindergarten-aged children in rural Oregon. The main question it aims to answer is: What is the impact of the text intervention on early math skills in preschool-aged children? Participants will be randomized to receive the early math text intervention or standard of care. Researchers will compare pre-and-post math performance between the intervention and control group.

Full description

The goals of this clinical trial to examine how pediatricians prescribing early math enriching texts (TipsbyText) to parents of 3-4 year olds affects the math skills of under-resourced pre-kindergarten-aged children in rural Oregon. The main question it aims to answer is: What is the impact of the text intervention on early math skills in preschool-aged children using the Research-based Early Math Assessment (REMA-Brief)? Two secondary questions of the study are: What is the impact on child literacy using the Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening Tool (PALS-PreK) and parent confidence using the Development and Research in Early Math Education (DREME)? Participants will be randomized to receive intervention (the early math text intervention) or control (no texts). Researchers will compare pre-and-post math performance on the REMA-Brief (primary outcome), PALS-PreK (secondary child outcome) and DREME (secondary parent outcome) between the intervention and control group.

Enrollment

1,000 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

36 to 59 months old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Parents of participants must be at least 18 years of age
Child must be 3 or 4 years old at the time of screening
Child receives care at a participating Oregon Rural Practice-based Research Network (ORPRN) clinic
Parent and child can communicate in English or Spanish
Parent is able to give informed consent
Child is eligible for Medicaid services

Exclusion criteria

Parent is not able to receive text messages
Parent is not able to read text messages
Child is too ill to participate
Parents who are unable to complete study activities
Child has a sibling currently enrolled in the study
Child has a developmental delay including neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism or syndromes associated with developmental delay (e.g. cerebral palsy, seizure disorders, attention deficit / hyperactivity disorder). Isolated expressive speech delay is not a developmental exclusion criteria.