Lee Sanders|Tamar Gershon|Lynne C. Huffman|Fernando Mendoza
Prescribing Books for Immigrant Children
Stanford University
assess booksharing activities within firstgeneration hispanic immigrant families assess effect pediatricians giving books patientssurveyconvenience sample 122 predominantly hispanic immigrant parents children aged 2 months 5 years parents 56 received childrens books pediatrician 66 nothouse staff continuity clinic university childrens hospitalfrequent book sharing fbs defined parents reporting 3 days per week sharing books child main independent variables included following 1 exposure reach read program defined received childrens book pediatrician 2 socioeconomics measured parents years education medicaid enrollment 3 acculturation defined 4 questions relating parents proficiency english language 4 parents country origin 5 parent literacy measured parents reporting 3 days per week reading alone 6 parents age 7 marital status 8 household size 9 childs age 10 childs sexninety percent parents born outside united states 71 mexico 85 spoke spanish home 63 completed less highschool education seventyfive percent childrens medical insurance provided medical medicaid 9 children uninsured sixtyseven percent spoke exclusively spanish home 84 parents want children learn read english spanish high fbs reported among parents whose children received books physician compared parents whose children received books odds ratio 362 95 confidence interval ci 140937 p05 also associated fbs parents reading frequently 952 95 ci 2094327 p05 national origin outside mexico 554 95 ci 1591927 p05 findings independent parents educational level parents employment parents age acculturation family sizepediatricians promote literacy development among hispanic immigrant children provision free books wellchild visits findings also suggest independent effects adult literacy child age research needed understand effect pediatric literacy programs hispanic immigrant children bilingual environments readiness school entry arch pediatr adolesc med 2000154771777