Early parent-child intervention with Dialogic Book-Sharing and its benefits on child development and parenting

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Conditions: Parenting practices, and early childhood development (language, cognition, social and emotional learning)
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Registration Number: ISRCTN11755019

Lead Sponsor: niversity of Brescia

Brief Summary: 2024 Protocol article in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38890664/ (added 19/06/2024)

Detailed Description: Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: Ongoing

Sex: All

Target Recruitment: 176

Inclusion Criteria

1. Mothers and fathers who are able to speak and read Italian
2. Children aged 14-20 months at the time of the baseline assessment

Exclusion Criteria

1. Children who have a diagnosed physical or intellectual impairment;
2. Mothers and/or fathers with a diagnosed physical or psychiatric condition that could compromise their ability to participate in the intervention program.

Study & Design

Study Type: Interventional

Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
In each assessment session (Baseline pre-treatment, Post-treatment and 6 months Follow-up), the parent is invited to participate in a video recording of a 5-minute parent-child interaction and asked to complete a self-report questionnaire taking approximately 30 minutes, including questions on:<br>1. Parent’s socio-demographic details (age, nationality, educational level, professional occupation, economic condition), and information about pregnancy and post-partum period;<br>2. Child's linguistic developement assessed using The MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory (CDI - Fenson et al., 2000);<br>3. Child behavior assessed with The Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment (ASEBA) Child Behavior Checklist 1½ -5 (Achenbach, 2001);<br>4. Parental mood (anxiety, depression, stress) assessed with the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS Zingmond and Snaith (1983) and the short form of the parenting Stress Index (PSI-SF; Abidin, 1995).

Secondary Outcome Measures