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Published in: Maternal and Child Health Journal 11/2015

01-11-2015

Three Positive Parenting Practices and Their Correlation with Risk of Childhood Developmental, Social, or Behavioral Delays: An Analysis of the National Survey of Children’s Health

Authors: Sarah E. Cprek, Corrine M. Williams, Ibitola Asaolu, Linda A. Alexander, Robin C. Vanderpool

Published in: Maternal and Child Health Journal | Issue 11/2015

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Abstract

Objectives

(1) Investigate the relationship between three specific positive parenting practices (PPP)—reading to children, engaging in storytelling or singing, and eating meals together as a family—and parent-reported risk of developmental, behavioral, or social delays among children between the ages of 1–5 years in the US. (2) Determine if a combination of these parenting practices has an effect on the outcome.

Methods

Chi square and multiple logistic regression analyses were used to analyze cross-sectional data from the National Survey of Children’s Health 2011/2012 in regards to the relationship between each of the three individual PPP as well as a total PPP score and the child’s risk of being developmentally, socially, or behaviorally delayed (N = 21,527). Risk of delay was calculated using the Parents’ Evaluation of Developmental Status Questionnaire, which is a parental self-report measure that has been correlated with diagnosed child delays. These analyses controlled for poverty and parental education. All analyses were completed using SAS Version 9.3.

Results

A strong correlation was found between each of the three PPP as well as the total PPP score and the child’s risk of developmental, social, or behavioral delays (p < 0.05 for each test). These associations were found to have a dose–response relationship (p < 0.05 in all but one analysis).

Conclusions

Daily engagement in PPP could possibly reduce children’s risk of delay, and specifically engaging in all three PPP may have greater benefit.
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Metadata
Title
Three Positive Parenting Practices and Their Correlation with Risk of Childhood Developmental, Social, or Behavioral Delays: An Analysis of the National Survey of Children’s Health
Authors
Sarah E. Cprek
Corrine M. Williams
Ibitola Asaolu
Linda A. Alexander
Robin C. Vanderpool
Publication date
01-11-2015
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Maternal and Child Health Journal / Issue 11/2015
Print ISSN: 1092-7875
Electronic ISSN: 1573-6628
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10995-015-1759-1

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