The effect of a parental mHealth resource on language outcomes in 4- to 5-year-old children
South African Journal of Childhood Education
| Field | Value | |
| Title | The effect of a parental mHealth resource on language outcomes in 4- to 5-year-old children | |
| Creator | Le Roux, Elizabeth W. Eccles, Renata Abdoola, Shabnam Graham, Marien van der Linde, Jeannie | |
| Description | Background: The use of mobile health (mHealth) technology is rapidly expanding in healthcare worldwide. mHealth tools may provide parents with access to resources essential for promoting language development.Aim: The current study aimed to determine how an mHealth parental resource influenced 42 preschool children’s (4.0–5.11 months old) language abilities after a 17-week intervention period.Setting: Participants were identified from six early childhood development (ECD) centres from a low-income community in Tshwane, South Africa.Method: A randomised controlled trial (RCT), pre-test post-test research design was employed to determine whether an mHealth parental resource influenced 42 preschool children’s (4.0–5.11 months old) language abilities after a 17-week intervention period. Data were collected using the language subtests of a South African standardised protocol, the Emergent Literacy and Language Assessment Protocol (ELLA).Results: The parental mHealth application targeting language stimulation did not significantly improve the experimental group’s language outcomes when compared with the control group because most of the parents (n = 27) used the application for less than 20% of the active days.Conclusion: Providing parents with more support with mobile resources may lead to improved usage of the application. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 2022-03-02 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/sajce.v12i1.1026 | |
| Source | South African Journal of Childhood Education; Vol 12, No 1 (2022); 8 pages 2223-7682 2223-7674 | |
| Language | eng | |
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