A Randomised Controlled Trial to Evaluate the Efficacy of BBC Education's Tiny Happy People Content in Supporting Infant Language Development.
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 入组人数
- 435
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- 18 month expressive vocabulary
研究概览
简要总结
The aim of this project is to assess whether video materials from the BBC Tiny Happy People (THP) campaign are effective in terms of improving the language skills of socioeconomically disadvantaged children before they start school. This project will also look at how useable the service is for parents in terms of acceptability, effects on self-efficacy and implementation of advice.
详细描述
The current study will evaluate BBC Education's Tiny Happy People initiative (https://www.bbc.co.uk/tiny-happy-people) which seeks to reduce the impact of social and economic disadvantage on children's language skills before they arrive at primary school. BBC Education have created videos for parents and other caregivers with information about child development, tips and activities as well as other content of interest. The aim of the evaluation is to find out how parents feel about the materials and whether the videos promote a) caregiver confidence at 12, 18 and 24 months, b) caregiver-infant interaction at 12, 18 and 24 months and c) child language at 18 and 24 months. The primary outcome is expressive vocabulary size at 17-18 months. Families with 4- to 9-month-old infants who would like to take part will be randomly allocated either to a language support group or a physical health active control group and sent short, age-appropriate advice videos by text message three times a month until their children are 18 months old (with follow up videos for children until the age of 2 years where possible given study time limits).
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Basic Science
- 盲法
- Quadruple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 4 Months 至 9 Months（Child）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Families must:
- •be raising their child as a monolingual English speaker (at least 80% of the language they hear in the home is English)
- •have a postcode in deciles 1-5 of the Office of National Statistics Index of Multiple Deprivation
- •have access to the internet and a device to watch videos (via smart phone)
- •Infants must:
- •be full term
- •have a healthy birthweight
排除标准
- •Neither caregivers nor infants must have any significant known physical, mental or learning disability
结局指标
主要结局
18 month expressive vocabulary
时间窗: 2 months. Parents will complete the report within 2 months of the infant turning 18 months old.
Infant expressive vocabulary, assessed using the communicative development inventory (CDI) at 18 months
次要结局
- Caregiver responsive behaviour at 12, 18 and 24 months(Measures will be collected within 2 months of the child turning 12, 18 and 24 months)
- Caregiver self-efficacy at 12, 18 and 24 months(Measures will be collected within 2 months of the child turning 12, 18 and 24 months)
- 24 month expressive vocabulary(3 months. Parents will complete the report within 3 months of the infant turning 24 months old.)
研究者
Danielle Matthews
Reader in Cognitive Development
University of Sheffield