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Books and babies
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purpose study assess parental response clinicbased literacy program health maintenance organization hypothesized participation would associated increased literacy orientation childrenthis randomized community trial took place midwestern health maintenance organization six clinics paired randomly assigned participate participate project read main outcome variable literacy orientation book use target population parents children younger 12 months n 165 6 months participation parents surveyed telephoneseventyfive percent 77 treatment control groups respectively positive literacy orientation difference significant persons receiving videotape likely positive literacy orientation 829 vs 692 p 05 multivariate regression analyses also showed receiving free videotape significant intervention exposurethe members population study reading children parents receive videotape importance reading likely read children