Newborn literacy program effective in increasing maternal engagement in literacy activities: an observational cohort study

Stephanie Veldhuijzen van Zanten; Chrystal Coates; Marilou Hervas-Malo; Patrick J. McGrath

doi:10.1186/1471-2431-12-100

Newborn literacy program effective in increasing maternal engagement in literacy activities: an observational cohort study

Stephanie Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Chrystal Coates, Marilou Hervas-Malo, Patrick J. McGrath

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Background: Literacy is important for success in school and in adulthood. Book-gift programs at birth exist to help develop these foundations early on. The effectiveness of the Read to Me! Nova Scotia Family Literacy Program (a program where books and literacy materials are given to families in hospital when their baby is born) on the duration and frequency with which mothers engage in reading and other literacy based activities with their newborns was assessed.Methods: An observational cohort study design was used. Mothers of babies who received the Read to Me! package in Nova Scotia born between January-August 2006 made up the intervention group (N = 1051). Mothers of babies born in Prince Edward Island between December 2006 and March 2008 made up the control group (N = 279) and did not receive any literacy package when their baby was born. A phone questionnaire was conducted consisting of questions regarding frequency and duration of maternal engagement in language and literacy-based activities with their infants. These activities included reading, singing, talking, listening to CDs and the radio and watching TV. Babies were aged 0-10 months at the time of the interview.Results: Mothers who received the Read to Me! literacy package spent significantly more time reading to their babies, 17.9 ± 17.6 min/day compared to controls 12.6 ± 10.7 min/day, (p < 0.0001).Conclusions: Read to Me! may be an inexpensive, easy to administer and effective intervention which results in increased shared reading of mothers and their newborns.

Idioma original	English
Número de artículo	100
Publicación	BMC Pediatrics
Volumen	12
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2431-12-100
Estado	Published - jul. 16 2012

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The authors would like to thank Carol McDougall, director of Read to Me! Nova Scotia Family Literacy program and the Read to Me! staff, Tracy Lowe and Shanda Laramee-Jones, for all their help and support throughout the project. We would also like to thank Dr. Cyndi Brannen and Dr. Peggy Bethune (Queen Elizabeth hospital in Charlottetown, PEI) for their collaboration on the project. Lastly, we would like to thank Dr. Richard Goldbloom for having the vision to help found this program and to set in motion the research to support it. Dr. McGrath’s research is supported by a Canada Research Chair.

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