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Reach Out and Read Literacy Program for Infants in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Pre-Post Experimental Study.
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Clinical Pediatrics . Dec2023, Vol. 62 Issue 12, p1543-1550. 8p. - Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- The elevated prevalence of linguistic delay in youngsters emphasizes the necessity to focus on strategies to improve language development, hence aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of Reach Out and Read (ROR) intervention on language development for infants admitted to neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at a tertiary care hospital, in Belagavi, India. Eighteen infants admitted 7 or more days in NICU and had APGAR scores of more than 6 at the first and fifth minute after birth were recruited. Reach Out and Read was done for 6 months. At recruitment, corrected age 3 and 5 months' general movement assessment (GMA) and at corrected age, 6 months' Bayley Scale of Infant Development III (BSID III) language subtest was recorded. Wilcoxon matched paired test showed significant improvement (P =.0277; P =.0431) in GMA over time. Six-month parent delivered ROR intervention confirms its effectiveness in promoting general movement developmental trajectories of infants admitted to NICU. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *EXPERIMENTAL design
*EVALUATION of human services programs
*NEONATAL intensive care
*NEONATAL intensive care units
*MANN Whitney U Test
*TERTIARY care
*LANGUAGE acquisition
*PRE-tests & post-tests
*HUMAN services programs
*DESCRIPTIVE statistics
*CHI-squared test
*DATA analysis software
*READING
*CHILDREN
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00099228
- Volume :
- 62
- Issue :
- 12
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Clinical Pediatrics
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 173412747
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/00099228231164981