Trial reportChild abuse & neglect2012
Using baby books to change new mothers' attitudes about corporal punishment.
Trial report in Child abuse & neglect, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 14 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
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Using Baby Books to Promote Maternal and Child Health
A Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing a Children's Book to Brochures for Safe Sleep Education in an At-Risk Population Enrolled in a Home Visitation Program
Who cites it
14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 48 citations in OpenAlex.
- Postnatal parental education for optimizing infant general health and parent-infant relationships.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2013Pooled it
- Parent Discipline and Pre-schoolers' Social Skills.Early child development and care · 2022Article
- Identifying knowledge, self-efficacy and response efficacy of alternative discipline strategies among low-income Black, Latino and White parents.Health education research · 2021Article
- Evaluation of an intervention aimed at supporting new parents: the Baby Newsletter project.Italian journal of pediatrics · 2020Article
- Deviant Peer Affiliation as an Explanatory Mechanism in the Association between Corporal Punishment and Physical Aggression: a Longitudinal Study among Chinese Adolescents.Journal of abnormal child psychology · 2017Article
- Promising intervention strategies to reduce parents' use of physical punishment.Child abuse & neglect · 2017Article
- Change over time in parents' beliefs about and reported use of corporal punishment in eight countries with and without legal bans.Child abuse & neglect · 2017Article
- Parents' Primary Professional Sources of Parenting Advice Moderate Predictors of Parental Attitudes toward Corporal Punishment.Journal of child and family studies · 2017Article
- Wait until your father gets home? Mother's and fathers' spanking and development of child aggression.Children and youth services review · 2015Article
- Implementation of mother-training program to improve parenting in pre-school age children: a randomized-controlled trial.North American journal of medical sciences · 2014Article
- The Effect of Baby Books on Mothers' Reading Beliefs and Reading Practices.Journal of applied developmental psychology · 2014Article
- Parental spanking of 1-year-old children and subsequent child protective services involvement.Child abuse & neglect · 2014Article
- Smart Beginnings Predicts Reduced Externalizing Behavior Via Parental Negative Demeanor During Discipline.Journal of applied developmental psychologyArticle
- The strength of the causal evidence against physical punishment of children and its implications for parents, psychologists, and policymakers.The American psychologistReview
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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
objectiveResearch has found corporal punishment to have limited effectiveness in altering child behavior and the potential to produce psychological and cognitive damage. Pediatric professionals have advocated reducing, if not eliminating its use. Despite this, it remains a common parenting practice in the US.
methodsUsing a three-group randomized design, this study explored whether embedding educational information about typical child development and effective parenting in baby books could alter new mothers' attitudes about their use of corporal punishment. Low-income, ethnically diverse women (n=167) were recruited during their third trimester of pregnancy and followed until their child was 18 months old.
resultsFindings from home-based data collection throughout this period suggest that educational baby books compared with non-educational baby books or no books can reduce new mothers' support for the use of corporal punishment (respective effect sizes=.67 and .25) and that these effects are greater for African-American mothers (effect sizes=.75 and .57) and those with low levels of educational attainment (high school diploma, GED, or less) (effect sizes=.78 and .49).
conclusionGiven their low cost and ease of implementation, baby books offer a promising way to change new mothers' attitudes and potentially reduce the use of corporal punishment with infants and toddlers.
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