The Effect of Exposure to Reach Out and Read on Shared Reading Behaviors.

Background: Caregiver-child shared reading improves literacy skills, school readiness, familial relationships, and social-emotional development. This multiyear study seeks to evaluate the effect of exposure to Reach Out and Read (ROR) on caregiver reading frequency and behaviors.

Methods: Caregivers of children 6 months to 5 years in 427 primary care clinics in North and South Carolina were asked to complete the Reach Out and Read Parent Feedback Survey.

Clinician Perceptions on Literacy Promotion in Pediatric Continuity Clinics.

Objective: We describe LP perceptions of pediatric and internal medicine/pediatrics residents and faculty and determine the relationship between LP training and perceptions of LP. Reach Out and Read (ROR) is a widely implemented evidence-based literacy promotion (LP) intervention. Recent data have shown that there is variability in both LP training for pediatric residents and implementation of ROR.

Health Literacy Perceptions and Knowledge in Pediatric Continuity Practices.

Background: Low health literacy affects one-third of adults in the United States and can have a negative effect on health behavior and outcomes.

Objective: The goal of this study was to examine attitudes and knowledge of health literacy among pediatric residents and faculty in pediatric resident continuity clinics across the country.

Methods: An online mixed-methods survey was distributed to pediatric faculty and residents through the Academic Pediatric Association's Continuity Research Network.

Early literacy training among medical students.

Background: The American Academy of Pediatrics regards literacy promotion as essential. Medical professionals are in a key position to promote children's early literacy, however this requires knowledge of existing literacy programmes. This study describes medical student training, awareness, experiences, and attitudes towards early literacy and the 'Reach Out and Read' (ROR) initiative.

Clinician Experiences With Reach Out and Read: An Exploratory Qualitative Analysis.

Background: Enhanced literacy and increased vocabulary related to Reach Out and Read (ROR) are well described. Less is known about clinicians' experience with the program.

Objective: Understand clinician experiences of implementing ROR.

Reach Out and Read and developmental screening: using federal dollars through a health services initiative.

Oklahoma established the first health services initiative (HSI) to expand Reach Out and Read (ROR), increase developmental screening and improve the quality of well-child visits (Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic and Treatment (EPSDT)). ROR uses a book in the exam room to assess development and parent-child interaction, however, little is known about the relationship between this training and using a formal developmental screening tool. The purpose of this study is to see if using federal funding would facilitate ROR expansion and if this expansion would improve developmental screening and EPSDT visits in Oklahoma.

The impact of provider recommendation on human papillomavirus vaccine and other adolescent vaccines.

This study explored the association between provider recommendation and adolescent vaccine coverage. We analyzed data from the 2008 to 2018 National Immunization Survey-Teen including coverage with one dose of quadrivalent meningococcal conjugate vaccine (MenACWY), Tetanus-diphtheria-acellular pertussis vaccine (Tdap), and one and three doses of Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine. We compared vaccine coverage between those who recalled a provider recommendation and those who did not.

Literacy Promotion Training and Implementation in Pediatric Continuity Clinics.

Background: Despite endorsement by the American Academy of Pediatrics, there are no national data on literacy promotion (LP) training and behaviors.

Objective: To describe LP training experiences and behaviors of pediatric and internal medicine/pediatrics residents and faculty nationally, and the association between LP training and behaviors.

Methods: The Academic Pediatric Association's Continuity Research Network and Reach Out and Read National Center sent an online survey to faculty and residents at participating Continuity Research Network clinics.

Structured Curriculum to Improve Pediatric Resident Confidence and Skills in Providing Parenting Advice.

Context: Residents receive little parenting education despite its potential to improve parenting behavior and decrease child maltreatment despite the inclusion of parenting content on board certification examinations. Teaching residents how to discuss parenting and foster positive parent-child relationships is essential to treating the whole person in osteopathic pediatric medicine.

Objective: To improve pediatric and internal medicine-pediatric residents' knowledge, confidence, and skills in providing parenting advice.

Implementation of Reach Out and Read by Health Departments Increases Rural Access.

Background: Reach Out and Read is an evidence based early literacy program used in primary care practices. In 2014, the program expanded to County Health Departments in Oklahoma.

Objective: To evaluate how implementation of the program in Health Departments affects access for at risk children.