Crianza Positiva: combining group workshops and e-messages to strengthen parenting competencies

Ana Balsa (), Esteban Gómez, María L González, Juanita Bloomfield, Alejandro Cid and Rosario Valdés

No 2201, Documentos de Trabajo/Working Papers from Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales y Economia. Universidad de Montevideo.

Abstract: A large body of literature shows the effectiveness of parenting interventions. However, access to these interventions is low: programs are expensive and hard to replicate and scale up. This study examines the impact of a parenting intervention, Crianza Positiva, that combines 8 structured group sessions with a 6-month e-messaging component delivered to families’ mobile phones. We analyze videorecordings of a free play activity to rate the quality of child-caregiver interaction and use inverse probability weighting techniques to assess the effects of the intervention on 442 disadvantaged families with infants/toddlers that were enrolled in early childhood centers in Uruguay in 2017. Results show significant and sustained benefits of the program on interaction quality, with medium effect sizes in the affective and teaching dimensions. Due to its protocolized design and the low cost of integrating this intervention into early-childhood centers, the program has a large potential for widespread implementation and scalability.

Keywords: Parenting Interventions; Positive Parenting; Impact Evaluation; E-messages; Crianza Positiva (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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