Rx for Success: RCT of an App for Dialogic Reading Training
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Official title
Rx for Success: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Technology-Based Dialogic Reading Training
Brief summary
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The purpose of this randomized controlled trial is to explore the efficacy of amplifying dialogic reading training provided to families of infants and toddlers in the ROR program using a novel, smartphone-based application (Rx for Success; RS). The RS app includes videos modeling dialogic reading for a variety of child ages, interactive games, and text messaging reminders to empower parents and other caregivers to increase constructive cognitive and social-emotional stimulation in the home through book sharing. This study addresses an evidence gap regarding the efficacy of dialogic reading training to improve cognitive and social-emotional health using a mobile, technology-based approach. It leverages existing ROR infrastructure and will provide valuable pilot data to improve and scale this inexpensive clinical resource and guide future longitudinal studies, to better serve low-SES, at-risk families. Aims and hypotheses are as follows: Specific Aim 1 (Rx for Success; RS): To explore the efficacy of incorporating dialogic reading training via the RS application into ROR during well-child visits for infants (6-12 months old) and toddlers (18-24 months old), compared to standard ROR practice. Hypothesis 1a (language): Language scores (LENA Snapshot) will be higher in children whose caregivers are provided with the RS app. Hypothesis 1b (social-emotional): Social-emotional development scores (DECA-I/T items) will be higher in children whose caregivers are provided with the RS app. Hypothesis 1c (dialogic quality): Dialogic reading quality scores (DialogPR) will be higher in caregivers presented with the RS app. Hypothesis 1d (attitudes): Attitudes towards shared reading at home (StimQ-I/T items) will be higher in families provided with the RS app. Specific Aim 2 (exploratory): To explore the effect of providing a smartphone-based app versus a specially designed children's book on screen-based media use. Hypothesis 2a: Reported screen-based media use (ScreenQ) will be lower in families provided with the RS app, reflecting greater emphasis on interactive shared reading. Hypothesis 2b: Language (LENA Snapshot) and social-emotional (DECA-I/T items) scores will be higher for children with less reported screen-based media use (ScreenQ).
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT03828721
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 252 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Interventions
Other
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 6 Months to 21 Months
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepts healthy volunteers
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Mar 19, 2018
- Primary completion
- Jun 30, 2019
- Completion
- Jun 30, 2019
- Last update posted
- Jun 15, 2020
2018 – 2019
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 1
- U.S. states
- 1
- U.S. cities
- 1
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Community Health Center@ Connecticut Children's Medical Center | Hartford | Connecticut | 06106 | — |
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