Ruth Nutting, Samuel Ofei-Dodoo, Jennifer Wipperman, Ashley D Allen
Assessing Family Medicine Physicians' Perceptions of Integrated Behavioral Health in a Primary Care Residency
Family medicine
paediatric professionals promote shared reading facilitate school readiness yet relatively studies examine parents underserved communities consider issue daily lives sought understand shared reading within broader context parenting among latino parents conducted indepth interviews purposively sampling spanishspeaking latina mothers children aged 3 years urban federally qualified health center interviews recorded transcribed analysed iteratively allowed themes emerge data rather impose priori framework sought disconfirming evidence within interviews collected additional data ensure new themes identified saturation achieved saturation 12 interviews median child age 14 years identified four major themes participants reported engaging literacy promoting activities conversations storytelling play singing even read children daily b parents attitudes regarding early learning development influenced extent parents engaged shared reading child c participants described feelings ought read daily children cited variety barriers parents engaged frequent shared reading described joyful relaxed experience parents engage shared reading described reading instructing children engaging drills eg teaching letters urban latina mothers read regularly children nonetheless recognized importance suggesting existing programmes raised awareness even among underserved families refinement messaging may needed move past raising awareness facilitating shared reading parents