Preventing Learning Problems in Young Children: A Public Health and Physician-Based Outreach
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00110292 |
Recruitment Status
: Unknown
Verified May 2005 by Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).
Recruitment status was: Active, not recruiting
First Posted
: May 6, 2005
Last Update Posted
: June 24, 2005
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Condition or disease | Intervention/treatment | Phase |
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Developmental Disabilities Language Development Disorders | Behavioral: Age-specific parenting newsletters and developmental toys Behavioral: Parent-completed Ages & Stages Questionnaires Behavioral: Clinic-based distribution of children's books | Phase 1 |
This study will assess the effectiveness of a low-intensity, low-cost, preventive intervention to reduce developmental delay and learning problems in young children. The goal is to improve home caregiving environment factors that are often suboptimal in families living in poverty; these families are often subject to social, economic, and medical risk factors. The intervention is based on a public health/primary care partnership and combines mailed parent-completed Ages & Stages Questionnaires (ASQ), a monthly mailed age-paced parenting newsletter (Building Blocks) and corresponding developmental toys (BB), and a Reach Out and Read (ROR) physician-based distribution of children's books.
Families of 4- to 7-month-old children attending a participating pediatric clinic will be randomized to either an ASQ/BB+ROR group, an ROR-only group, or a no intervention control group. Outcomes measures will be obtained at 15, 24, 36, and 48 months of age and include measures of the home environment, parenting and parent-child interaction, child language and mental development measures, and rates of referral to Early Intervention programs. Baseline and ongoing demographic information and psychosocial and biological risk factors will also be gathered to see how they relate to child and family outcomes and to determine whether certain subgroups of families are more likely to benefit from the intervention than others.
Study Type : | Interventional (Clinical Trial) |
Enrollment : | 600 participants |
Allocation: | Randomized |
Intervention Model: | Factorial Assignment |
Masking: | Single |
Primary Purpose: | Prevention |
Official Title: | An RCT of a Low-Intensity Intervention to Reduce Delay |
Study Start Date : | March 2002 |
Study Completion Date : | February 2006 |

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Ages Eligible for Study: | 4 Months to 7 Months (Child) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | Yes |
Inclusion Criteria
- Attend participating pediatric clinic (serving poor, largely black, and Hispanic communities)
- Family with child 4 to 7 months of age at enrollment
- English- or Spanish-speaking
Exclusion Criteria
- Developmental delay
- Eligible for Early Intervention program

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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00110292
United States, New York | |
Montefiore Comprehensive Health Care Center | |
Bronx, New York, United States, 10451 | |
North Central Bronx Hospital Pediatric Clinic | |
Bronx, New York, United States, 10467 |
Principal Investigator: | Harris S. Huberman, MD | Medical & Health Research Association of NYC, Inc. |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00110292 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
R01HD040388 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract ) |
First Posted: | May 6, 2005 Key Record Dates |
Last Update Posted: | June 24, 2005 |
Last Verified: | May 2005 |
Keywords provided by Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD):
Public health Primary care Parenting education Child rearing |
Parenting newsletters Child development Language delay |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Developmental Disabilities Language Development Disorders Neurodevelopmental Disorders Mental Disorders Language Disorders |
Communication Disorders Neurobehavioral Manifestations Neurologic Manifestations Nervous System Diseases Signs and Symptoms |