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MONDAY, April 9, 2018 (HealthDay News) — The Video Interaction Project (VIP), a parent education program which promotes positive parenting through reading aloud and play, reduces hyperactivity at school entry, according to a study published online April 9 in Pediatrics<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Alan L. Mendelsohn, M.D., from New York University in New York City, and colleagues assessed the impacts of the pediatric primary care intervention VIP on social-emotional development at school entry. Families were randomized postpartum to either VIP birth to 3 years (VIP 0-3), control 0 to 3 years, or to a third group without school entry follow-up. At preschool age (3 to 5 years), there was a second randomization to either VIP age 3 to 5 (VIP 3-5) or control 3 to 5 years.<\/p>\n
The researchers found that both VIP 0-3 and VIP 3-5 were independently associated with improved 4.5-year Behavior Assessment System for Children, Second Edition. Children who received the combined intervention, VIP 0-3 and VIP 3-5, had a significant reduction in hyperactivity (P = 0.001). There was a clinically significant reduction in hyperactivity with VIP 0-3 (relative risk reduction for overall sample, 69.2 percent; P = 0.03; relative risk reduction for increased psychosocial risk: 100 percent; P = 0.006). Impacts were sustained for 1.5 years after study completion, and increased impacts were found with continued intervention from birth to age 5.<\/p>\n
“We support the use of pediatric primary care to promote reading aloud and play from birth to 5 years, and the potential for such programs to enhance social-emotional development,” the authors write.<\/p>\n
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