{"id":2814,"date":"2018-03-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/27\/parent-child-book-reading-tied-to-psychosocial-benefits\/"},"modified":"2018-03-28T16:07:59","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T16:07:59","slug":"parent-child-book-reading-tied-to-psychosocial-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/27\/parent-child-book-reading-tied-to-psychosocial-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"Parent-Child Book Reading Tied to Psychosocial Benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Book-reading interventions associated with improved psychosocial functioning in parents and children<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>TUESDAY, March 27, 2018 (HealthDay News) &#8212; Reading books together is associated with psychosocial benefits in both children and parents, according to a review published online March 27 in <i>Pediatrics<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Qian-Wen Xie, from the University of Hong Kong, and colleagues conducted a systematic literature review to identify randomized controlled trials assessing the effects of parent-child book reading (PCBR) interventions on the psychosocial functioning of children and parents. The authors included 19 interventions involving 3,264 families.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers found that PCBR interventions improved the psychosocial functioning of children and parents compared with controls (standardized mean difference, 0.185). Between-group variance was associated with two moderator variables: method of data collection (observation less than interview) and rater (reported by others less than self-reported). The effects of PCBR interventions on psychosocial outcomes of parents or children did not significantly differ.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It seems prudent to consider the application of PCBR in improving the psychosocial well-being of families, especially those at high risk,&#8221; the authors write.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pediatrics.aappublications.org\/content\/early\/2018\/03\/23\/peds.2017-2675\" target=\"_new\">Abstract\/Full Text (subscription or payment may be required)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i>   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book-reading interventions associated with improved psychosocial functioning in parents and children<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2835,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-2814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2834,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814\/revisions\/2834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}