Title: The Bright By Three (BB3) Effectiveness Trial
Summary: The
Bright By Three (BB3) non-profit was founded in 1995 to provide a low
cost intervention that can reach a large proportion of low-income
families with the goal of increasing talking, reading, playing, and
praise (TRPP) between caregivers and young children. The BB3
intervention provides evidence-based written materials and an annual
visit by a trained community worker to review the materials at home or
in a primary care clinic or community setting at 1 and 2 years of age.
The original intervention, while based on evidence from other
interventions, has never been evaluated in an effectiveness trial, and
stakeholders were concerned that its effect may be limited by infrequent
contact with caregivers. Since more than 70% of low-income families now
have access to internet and mobile technology, use of this technology
could increase the intensity of the BB3 intervention without
significantly increasing cost. Since
2013, our team has been working with BB3 staff, app developers, and
parent advisors to develop and pilot test a mobile technology ‘app’ for
caregivers to augment the BB3 intervention. To
our knowledge, this type of multi-level intervention to promote early
childhood development through increasing caregivers’ TRPP behaviors has
not previously been tested. Therefore,
we propose to conduct a pilot hybrid trial to study the effectiveness
and implementation of the multi-level BB3 intervention among 1 to 2 year
old children and their caregivers.
Funder: Children's Hospital Colorado
Award Number: R7550-P
Project Period: 03/01/2017-02/28/2018
Title: Mother's Milk Messaging Summary: The objectives for
this project are to evaluate a bilingual English-Spanish tailored text
messages and online support system to support exclusive and continuous
breastfeeding for new mothers--comparing texting alone, texting with an
online support group to those with usual care, to determine the cost
involved in moderating the online groups and providing bidirectional
consultation when needed and to obtain qualitative feedback from a
subset of mothers in both intervention groups to determine what was
effective, as well as suggestions for improvement of the messaging
program.
Funder: Kellogg Foundation
Award Number: P3034146
Project Period: 06/01/2016-05/31/2018