N/A
N=630
Literacy Promotion for Latinos Study
Language Development · Behavior, Child · Parenting · Literacy
Bottom Line
View on ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT04609553 ↗Enrolled (actual)
630
Serious AEs
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Results posted
Nov 2025
Primary outcome: Primary: Child Language Skills — 2.1; 2.3; 2.6 score on a scale — p=0.64
Study Design & Population
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- N/A
- Interventions
- Usual care including ROR (Behavioral); Text messages (Behavioral); Connection to community resources (Behavioral)
- Age
- Adult, Older Adult · 18+ yrs
- Sex
- All
- Sponsor
- Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
- Primary completion
- Dec 2024
Outcome Measures
| Outcome | Result | p-value |
|---|---|---|
| PRIMARY Child Language Skills |
2.1; 2.3; 2.6 | 0.64 |
| PRIMARY Child Communicative Skills |
12.5; 13.5; 15.7; 44.5; 50.4; 46.6 | 0.84 |
| PRIMARY Child Social-emotional Skills |
95.7; 93.8; 94.5; 88.4; 87.9; 91.4 | 0.93 |
| PRIMARY Caregiver Cognitive Stimulation |
4.5; 4.0; 4.2; 6.0; 6.7; 6.1 | 0.002 sig |
| PRIMARY Dialogic Reading Behavior |
16.7; 18.1; 17.3 | 0.78 |
| PRIMARY Caregiver Discipline Strategies |
1.9; 2.0; 2.1 | 0.78 |
| SECONDARY Caregiver Attitudes About Reading |
21.7; 21.6; 22.1; 20.1; 20.1; 19.8 | 0.80 |
| SECONDARY Community Resource Participation |
2.6; 2.5; 2.7; 2.4; 2.3; 2.5 | 0.07 |
| SECONDARY Caregiver-clinician Relationship |
5.8; 5.7; 5.5; 5.3; 5.3; 5.4 | 0.19 |
| SECONDARY Social Needs and Stress |
2.6; 2.7; 2.7; 2.8; 2.6; 2.8 | <.001 sig |
| SECONDARY Parent Stress |
34.4; 35.1; 34.8; 34.9; 35.8; 34.7 | 0.87 |
| SECONDARY Child Media Use |
4.9; 4.7; 4.6; 5.2; 5.1; 4.9 | 0.99 |
Summary
This study tests the extent to which tailored outreach text messages that provide a cue to action and an intervention that enhances access to poverty-reducing resources, in combination with standard primary care literacy promotion, can improve child language and social- emotional skill acquisition among low-income Latino children.
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- Primary caregiver of a child age 6 months to 12 months
- Identifies as Latino/a/x
- Primary language English or Spanish
- Cell phone ownership
- Age 18 years or older
- Willing to receive text messages
- Willing to accept being placed into one of three study groups
Exclusion Criteria
- Children with multiple congenital anomalies or genetic disorders and previously identified developmental delays
- Individuals unable to provide informed consent
- Intent to discontinue care at current pediatric clinic / recruitment site
- Discontinued care at one of the three pediatric clinics / recruitment sites
Data sourced from ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT04609553). Outcome figures and adverse-event rates are extracted automatically from the registry's posted results and are provided for clinician reference, not as a substitute for the primary publication.