NCT03941197

A Family Literacy Program for Latino Families

Ready and Healthy for Kindergarten- A Family Literacy Program for Latino Families

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 14 (actual)
• Sponsor: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 99 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

A pilot study of a health-focused family literacy program. The program will consist of a series of 8 weekly workshops centered around different health topics (e.g. physical activity) that introduce basic literacy skills. The workshops are designed for children entering kindergarten and their parents

Detailed description

This is a pilot study of a health-focused family literacy program. The program consists of 8 weekly health-themed workshops designed to introduce basic literacy skills to children entering Kindergarten and their parents. There will be a pre and post test assessment for participating parents and children. During the 8 weeks, parents will receive 2-3 weekly text messages to reinforce material presented at the weekly workshop.

Conditions

• Literacy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Ready and Healthy for Kindergarten Family Literacy program	Participants will participate in 8 parent-child health-themed literacy workshops. Participants will receive 2-3 text messages per week for 8 weeks.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-05-28
• Primary completion: 2019-09-28
• Completion: 2019-09-28
• First posted: 2019-05-07
• Last updated: 2020-02-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States