Infant cognitive development Mental and Behavioural Disorders
Conditions
Interventions
There will be two groups: an index group who will receive a book sharing training program and a waitlist control group. The intervention involves weekly training sessions run over 8 weeks.
Sponsors
University of Reading (UK)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Able (in the investigators opinion) and willing to comply with all study requirements 2. Primary caregiver is able to attend sessions ? this may be the mother, father, grandparent, aunt, or other carer 3. Mother is willing and able to give informed consent for participation in the study 4. Mother/ primary caregiver, aged 16 years or above 5 Infant is aged 14, 15, or 16 months old at the time of the first assessment 6. Resident in one of the four catchment areas
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. Children which have significant physical or established intellectual impairment 2. Carers suffering from a significant physical or psychiatric condition which would impair their ability to engage in the program
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1. Child language (i.e. vocabulary and comprehension) assessed as a count at the end of the training phase. 2. Infant attention assessed by two means: 2.1. The longest bout of attention and quality of attention measured during a 5 minute segment of free play and book-sharing 2.2. The longest bout of sustained attention during a computerized vigilance task | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1. Maternal book-sharing practices (i.e. ratings of video-taped episodes of book sharing for maternal sensitivity and facilitation, and pointing, repetitions, and elaborations) assessed as ordinal variables (and, where appropriate, counts) at the end of the training phase. 2. Maternal general interactive behaviours (i.e. ratings of video-taped episodes of joint play for sensitivity, facilitation, and reciprocity) assessed as ordinal variables at the end of the training phase. 3. Infant emotion recognition (i.e. a count of the number of correct child emotions identified (i.e. happy, sad, angry, and fearful). | — |
Countries
South Africa
Outcome results
None listed