TMP-Visitas al Hogar (TMP-HV RCT)

The University of Chicago

Status: Completed

Conditions: Language Development

Treatments: Behavioral: Treinta Millones de Palabras - Visitas al Hogar

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03076268

16-1579

Details and patient eligibility

About

Treinta Millones de Palabras- Visitas al Hogar (TMP) is designed to intervene upon mothers' knowledge, beliefs, and behavior, which in turn influences their interaction with their children, impacting children's development. The investigators will measure change in mothers' knowledge, beliefs, and behavior during and after intervention, and measure impacts on children's development across major developmental domains. Specifically, the investigators will measure mothers'

1. Knowledge of child language development and the role of parents in that development
2. Beliefs about the malleability of intelligence and their role in shaping their children's intelligence
3. Interaction with their child, specifically their linguistic input and responsiveness to their child's communication

Concurrently, the investigators will measure children's

1. Emergent oral language development, in both Spanish and English
2. Social-emotional development
3. Math and spatial reasoning skill development

Enrollment: 91 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• participants (i.e. parents and their children) who live at or below 200% of the federal poverty line,
• female caregivers with a child between the ages of 24-30 months old,
• participants whose preferred home language is Spanish,
• education level is less than or equal to a bachelor's degree.

Exclusion criteria

• participants (i.e. parents and their children) who live over 200% of the federal poverty line,
• parents under the age of 18,
• non-female primary care giver
• children younger than 24 months old or older than 30 months old (at start of study),
• parents who do not have legal custody of their child,
• parents whose child does not live with them,
• parents who are not with their child at least two full days per week,
• parents who are unable to commit to the intervention requirements,
• foster parents,
• children with significant cognitive or physical impairments, (specifically Autism Spectrum Disorder, Epilepsy, Cerebral Palsy, hearing impairment, Down Syndrome and blindness),
• parents who have earned or are currently working toward a graduate or professional degree (e.g. M.A., M.S., M.B.A), and
• parents whose preferred home language is not Spanish.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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91 participants in 2 patient groups

Treatment Group

Experimental group

Description:

The investigators will deliver the TMP Curriculum to 45 Treatment families. The TMP Curriculum is comprised of 1) 12 educational modules, 2) animations and videos of real parent-child interactions to teach parents about the science behind child brain development, and model strategies for improving parents' child-directed speech, 3) video modeling and collaborative goal setting, and 4) quantitative linguistic feedback from Language ENvironment Analysis (LENA) recordings. This curriculum is delivered in Spanish.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Treinta Millones de Palabras - Visitas al Hogar

Control Group

No Intervention group

Description:

The investigators will deliver a Nutrition Curriculum to 45Control families. The Nutrition Curriculum provides information about the importance of healthy nutrition for child development, strategies for healthy eating, and meal preparation.This curriculum is delivered in Spanish.