Alan L. Mendelsohn|Benard P. Dreyer|Carolyn Brockmeyer|Samantha B. Berkule?Silberman|Harris S. Huberman|Suzy Tomopoulos
Randomized Controlled Trial of Primary Care Pediatric Parenting Programs
determine whether pediatric primary carebased programs enhance parenting early child development reduce media exposure whether enhanced parenting mediates effectsrandomized controlled trialurban public hospital pediatric primary care clinica total 410 mothernewborn dyads enrolled childbirthpatients randomly assigned 1 2 interventions video interaction project vip building blocks bb interventions control group vip intervention comprised 1on1 sessions child development specialist facilitated interactions play shared reading review videotapes made parent child primary care visit days learning materials parenting pamphlets also provided bb intervention mailed parenting materials including agespecific newsletters suggesting activities facilitate interactions learning materials parentcompleted developmental questionnaires ages stages questionnaireselectronic media exposure home using 24hour recall diarythe mean sd exposure 6 months 1465 1250 mind exposure vip associated reduced total duration media exposure compared bb control groups mean sd mind vip 1316 1187 bb 1512 1167 control 1554 1387 p 009 enhanced parentchild interactions found partially mediate relations vip media exposure families ninth grade higher literacy level sobel statistic 249 p 01pediatric primary care may represent important venue addressing public health problem media exposure young children population levelclinicaltrialsgov identifier nct00212576