Parent engagement in an original and culturally adapted evidence‐based parenting program, Legacy for Children™

Abstract

Human Subjects Approval: The information collection protocol was reviewed and approved by the IRB of Oklahoma State University, Protocol HE1484 "Legacy for Children TM Implementation Study." The study also received a Certificate of Confidentiality, issued by CDC. ABSTRACTLegacy for Children TM (Legacy) is an evidence-based program focused on promoting sensitive, responsive parenting for socioeconomically disadvantaged families. Legacy has recently been culturally and linguistically adapted for Spanish-monolingual Latino families and is being piloted in partnership with an early childhood education program. We conducted a mixed methods study to identify barriers and facilitators to engagement, using program monitoring data sources from both participant and group leader perspectives. We conducted qualitative analyses of open-ended data to identify distinct barriers (e.g., employment challenges, health-related challenges and appointments) and facilitators (e.g., other mothers in group, interest in program topics) to engagement that emerged across English and Spanish language curriculum versions; curriculum-specific barriers and facilitators were also documented. We interpret these findings in light of quantitative data on measures of engagement, showing that participants in the Spanish curriculum evidenced comparable levels of parent-group leader relationship quality relative to the English group, and higher levels of parent's group support/connectedness and overall satisfaction. These results offer promising considerations for optimizing families' engagement in parenting programs in the context of early care and education settings. K E Y W O R D Scultural adaptation, Latino, Legacy for Children TM , mixed methods, parenting RESUMENLegado para los Niños TM (Legado) es un programa basado en la evidencia que se centra en promover una crianza sensible y susceptible para familias con desventajas socioeconómicas. Recientemente, Legado se ha adaptado cultural y lingüísticamente para familias Latinas en las que sólo se habla español, y está siendo puesto en práctica experimental en asociación con un programa de educación en la temprana niñez. Llevamos a cabo un estudio con una variedad mixta de métodos para identificar obstáculos y promotores para ser incluidos usando recursos de información de la supervisión del programa provenientes de las perspectivas tanto de participantes como de líderes de grupo. Realizamos análisis cuantitativos de información no limitada de antemano para identificar diferentes obstáculos (v.g. dificultades de empleo, dificultades y citas 356 © 2020 Michigan Association for Infant Mental Health Infant Ment Health J. 2020;41:356-377. wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/imhj SO ET AL. 357relacionadas con la salud) y promotores (v.g. otras madres en el grupo, interés en los temas del programa) para ser incluidos los cuales surgieron a lo largo de las versiones curriculares del inglés y del español; también se documentaron los obstáculos y promotores relacionados con el currículo específico. Interpretamos es...

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