Educational interventions in child development and health literacy assumptions: an integrative review.
Rayara Medeiros Duarte Luz, Dayana Cecília de Brito Marinho, Ana Paula Esmeraldo Lima and 1 others
PMID 36542053WHAT IT FOUND
Health professional-led parent education in community settings was associated with positive child development outcomes across 11 included studies, but only five measured whether parents understood the advice.
Key findings
01Educational interventions conducted by health professionals with parents/caregivers showed positive child development outcomes in children who received the intervention.
02Home visits were used in seven articles, group meetings in four, and childcare consultations in two to provide access to information.
03Only five studies measured parents' understanding, and appraisal of information was identified as a gap.
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What it does not show
Only 11 articles were included. The search used three databases and a 10-year period, which the authors said represents only a portion of the literature. Children with disability, risk or developmental delay were excluded. Studies focused on mental illness of parents or caregivers were excluded. The final sample was only in English, although the search allowed Portuguese, English and Spanish. Reference management software was not used. Some studies did not describe how professional training occurred. Only five studies measured parents' understanding, and appraisal of information was a gap. Some studies did not measure child development outcomes, and some reported outcomes that were not significant.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read this as proof that any health professional-led parent education programme will improve child development. The review included 11 studies, some did not measure child development, and some reported outcomes that were not significant.