Randomized controlled trial of a book-sharing intervention in a deprived South African community: effects on carer-infant interactions and their relation to infant cognitive and socio-emotional outcome

摘要

BackgroundConsistent with evidence from high income countries, we previously showed that, in an informal peri-urban settlement in a low-middle income country, training parents in book-sharing with their infants benefitted infant language and attention (). Here, we investigated whether these benefits were explained by improvements in carer-infant interactions in both book-sharing and non-book-sharing contexts. We also explored whether infant socio-emotional development benefitted from book-sharing.