Maasoumeh Barkhordari-Sharifabad, Saeed Vaziri-Yazdi, Mansoureh Barkhordari-Sharifabad
The effect of teaching puberty health concepts on the basis of a health belief model for improving perceived body image of female adolescents: a quasi-experimental study
BMC public health
purpose study investigated effects family literacy program latino parents language practices home childrens oral language skills study examined extent program called family reading intervention language literacy spanish effective teaching lowincome loweducation latino parents 3 language strategies ie comments highlevel questions recasts reading aloud b parent implementation target strategies influenced childrens language skills method five latino mothers spanishspeaking preschool children participated multiplebaseline singlesubject design across participants program initiation staggered across mothers obtaining stable baseline data parent child outcomes collected across 3 experimental conditions baseline intervention followup study employed visual data analysis eg level trend variability examine program effects parent child outcomes results program important effect parental use comments highlevel questions less impact recasts addition program notable effect childrens use different words conversational turns less effect inferences effect mean length utterance words conclusion family reading intervention language literacy spanish effective program extend enrich reading practices lowincome children culturally linguistically diverse background experience home results implications family literacy programs aimed minority spanishspeaking families