NCT04423133

Bilingual Family Literacy Program Pilot

Bilingual Family Literacy Program Pilot: Ready and Healthy for Kindergarten

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 35 (actual)
• Sponsor: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 99 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study will examine the feasibility of implementing a virtual bilingual health-focused family literacy program.

Detailed description

"Ready and Healthy for Kindergarten" is a bilingual family literacy program that uses anticipatory guidance on important health routines to introduce critical language and literacy skills to young Latino children entering Kindergarten and their families. The objectives of this study are 1) To assess the feasibility of implementing the bilingual family literacy program online via video conference by collecting information on family attendance and participation, 2) To examine the acceptability of the program, and 3) To explore preliminary effects of the program on the family health and language routines as well as child language and literacy skill acquisition.

Conditions

• Language Development
• Literacy
• Health Behavior

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Online Family Literacy Program	Parent-child dyads will participate in 8 weekly online health-themed workshops that introduce language and literacy skills. Participants will also receive 2-3 text messages per week for the duration of the program and children's books.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-06-10
• Primary completion: 2020-09-04
• Completion: 2020-09-04
• First posted: 2020-06-09
• Last updated: 2020-09-29

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States