Child development/Parenting practices Not Applicable
Conditions
Interventions
The Program duration is 21 weeks, during which families receive three messages per week, through instant messaging. The messages contain information intended to promote parenting practices that could
2. General treatment: personalized messages containing the names of the participants but not necessarily adjusted to the developmental level
and
3. Active control group: generic messages related to health and cultural curiosities, with no content aimed at stimulating development
Sponsors
Espacio Interdisciplinario - Universidad de la República
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: For parents: 1. Being the primary caregiver of a child in pre-K 2. Having a phone that supports WhatsApp For children: 1. Being in pre-K (around 4 years old) 2. Attending one of the schools selected for the project
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. Children with severe disabilities as reported by teachers and parents 2. Twin siblings (in these cases one sibling was randomly selected)
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Measured before and after the program implementation, unless noted otherwise: 1. Child development is assessed using the Spanish adaptations of the following tests: 1.1. School Readiness-Child Development Inventory (INDI; Vásquez-Echeverría et al., 2022) 1.2. Bracken School Readiness Assessment (BSRA-3, Bracken, 2007) 1.3. Theory of mind Task Battery: ToMTB (Hutchins & Prelock, 2014) 1.4. Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence (WPPSI-4, Wechsler, 2014), specifically the Cancellation and Picture Naming subtests. 1.5. Preschool Self-Regulation Assessment (Smith-Donald et. al, 2007), specifically the Pencil tap subtest 2. Parenting Practices are evaluated using the Inventory of Characterization of the Home Environment for the Promotion of Child Development (not published yet). 3. Sociodemographic information is collected at baseline using an ad-hoc scale including parents' age, parent's educational level, number of members in the household, number of siblings the child has, diagnosed difficulties/disabilities if any, type of technical treatment if any, etc. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1. Motor development outcomes measured using the School Readiness-Child Development Inventory (INDI; Vásquez-Echeverría et al., 2022) before and after intervention 2. Social-emotional development outcomes measured using INDI before and after intervention 3. Attitudes toward learning outcomes measured using INDI before and after intervention | — |
Countries
Uruguay
Contacts
Public ContactAlejandro Vásquez-Echeverría
Outcome results
None listed