| The Effects of a Preventive Tailored Early Intervention Program for the Quality of Parenting of Low Income Families |
| Shin Jin Park1, Young Lee2 |
1Human Ecology Research Institute, Yonsei University
2Department of Child & Family Studies, Yonsei University |
| Corresponding Author:
Shin Jin Park ,Tel: +82-2-792-2632, Fax: +82-2-928-6764, Email: bodenage@hanmail.net |
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Received: March 15, 2011; Revised: April 6, 2011 Accepted: June 20, 2011. |
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| ABSTRACT |
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The purposes of this study were to a develop a preventive tailored early intervention program and to investigate the effects of the program on the quality of parenting for low income families. The subjects were eighty five infants, aged 13 to 32 months, and their mothers. Of the 85 mother-infant dyads, 42 dyads were randomly assigned to the experimental group and 43 dyads to the control group. To prevent the risks of the adverse development of infants from low income families a tailored intervention program was created based upon the transactional model. This emphasized the quality of the home environment and of the daily mother-infant interaction. The risk factors were assessed and progress monitoring was undertaken for the preventive tailored intervention treatment. In order to assess the effects of the program, HOME, the NCAST Teaching Scale and the Parenting Stress Index/Short From were used. The collected data were analyzed with descriptive statistics, ANCOVA, and the McNemar test. The experimental group showed a significant increase in performance and higher scores than the control group on the scores from HOME, and the NCAST Teaching Scale and significant decrease and lower scores in the Parenting Stress Index(SF). |
| Keywords:
preventive tailored early intervention, risk factors, progress monitoring, quality of parenting |
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