Effectiveness of a community-led shared book reading intervention in Syrian refugee children: a randomised controlled trial.

Autor: Hadfield K; Trinity Centre for Global Health, School of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. kristin.hadfield@tcd.ie., Al-Hamad M; Medair, Amman, Jordan., Dajani R; Department of Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Science, The Hashemite University, Zarqa, Jordan., El Kharouf A; Centre for Women's Studies, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan., Michalek J; Department of Biological and Experimental Psychology, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK., Qtaishat L; Taghyeer, Amman, Jordan., von Stumm S; Department of Education, University of York, York, UK., Mareschal I; Department of Biological and Experimental Psychology, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Scientific reports [Sci Rep] 2024 Aug 01; Vol. 14 (1), pp. 17822. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Aug 01.
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-68903-9
Abstrakt: Community-led, shared book reading programs may help improve refugee children's reading abilities and attitudes towards reading. We Love Reading (WLR)-a light-touch, community-led, shared book reading program-was evaluated in a pre-registered, wait-listed, randomised controlled trial (AEARCTR-0006523). 322 Syrian refugee mother-child dyads (children: 4-8-year-olds, 50.0% female) in Jordan were tested at two timepoints, 15 weeks apart. WLR did not significantly affect child literacy or child-reported child attitudes toward reading (ps > 0.05). Mothers did report improved child attitudes toward reading from WLR (p = 0.046, η 2  = 0.013). The intervention did not lead to improvements in family relationships (ps > 0.05). WLR may have promise in improving attitudes toward reading in forcibly displaced children but did not affect literacy or child-reported attitudes toward reading; these results provide insight into what changes are needed for effective shared book reading interventions in this population.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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