TY - JOUR
T1 - Understanding initial and sustained engagement of Spanish-speaking Latina mothers in the Legacy for Children program™
T2 - A qualitative examination of a group-based parenting program
AU - Beasley, Lana O.
AU - King, Corie
AU - Esparza, Irma
AU - Harnden, Angela
AU - Robinson, Lara R.
AU - So, Marvin
AU - Morris, Amanda
AU - Silovsky, Jane F.
N1 - Funding Information:
This project was supported by the Cooperative Agreement Number 5 U38 OT 000140-03 funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as a subaward from the Association of University Centers on Disabilities. The findings and conclusions in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Department of Health and Human Services, or the Association of University Centers on Disabilities. This research was supported in part by an appointment to the Research Participation Program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention administered by the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education through an interagency agreement between the U.S. Department of Energy and CDC. We thank the families involved in Legacy as well as the group leaders. We would like to acknowledge and thank the many participants, providers, research staff and agency personnel who were instrumental in the implementation of this evaluation, particularly, LaChanda Stephens-Totimeh, Cecilia Herrera, Byron Holzberger, Zohal Heidari, Ana Maria Melendez Guevara, Claire Taliaferro, Isabel Betancourt, Martha Zapata, and Jennifer Wyatt Kaminski for multiple contributions assisting the success of this study and manuscript. We also would like to acknowledge the original UCLA curriculum developers, Judy Howard, Leila Beckwith, and Dane Fitzmorris.
Funding Information:
This project was supported by the Cooperative Agreement Number 5 U38 OT 000140-03 funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as a subaward from the Association of University Centers on Disabilities. The findings and conclusions in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the o?cial position of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Department of Health and Human Services, or the Association of University Centers on Disabilities. This research was supported in part by an appointment to the Research Participation Program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention administered by the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education through an interagency agreement between the U.S. Department of Energy and CDC. We thank the families involved in Legacy as well as the group leaders. We would like to acknowledge and thank the many participants, providers, research staff and agency personnel who were instrumental in the implementation of this evaluation, particularly, LaChanda Stephens-Totimeh, Cecilia Herrera, Byron Holzberger, Zohal Heidari, Ana Maria Melendez Guevara, Claire Taliaferro, Isabel Betancourt, Martha Zapata, and Jennifer Wyatt Kaminski for multiple contributions assisting the success of this study and manuscript. We also would like to acknowledge the original UCLA curriculum developers, Judy Howard, Leila Beckwith, and Dane Fitzmorris.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2021/1/1
Y1 - 2021/1/1
N2 - Culturally congruent parenting programs delivered during early childhood have the potential to support diverse families. Legacy for Children™ (Legacy) is a groupbased prevention program designed to promote child development by reinforcing sensitive, responsive mother–child relationships, building maternal self-efficacy, and fostering peer networks of support among mothers living in poverty (Perou et al., 2012). The Legacy program was translated and culturally adapted for Spanishspeaking Latina mothers and their infants with a feasibility trial conducted to determine the cultural congruency of the adaptation. Feasibility results were positive with no previous studies validating the adapted Legacy Spanish program. The current manuscript focuses on understanding factors of engagement of the culturally adapted model. Specifically, we examined the factors that were perceived to have enhanced or hindered both initial and sustained engagement in the adapted Legacy Spanish program for Latina mothers. Individual interviews were conducted with Latina mothers (N = 26) who attended the Legacy Spanish program. We used qualitative data analysis to identify broad themes in Latina mothers’ responses. Themes emerged regarding the importance of using home-based recruitment strategies and pairing verbal information with written brochures to foster initial engagement. Sustained engagement themes focused on the provision of support from other Latina mothers in the Legacy group and the relationships with the group leaders. Having group leaders who were perceived as genuine, kind, positive, “good” at teaching, and persistent emerged as themes that facilitated initial and ongoing engagement. Barriers to engagement centered primarily on logistics rather than characteristics of the program itself. Thus, Latina mothers attributed importance to aspects of the curriculum, logistics, and implementation with respect to program engagement. Application of similar engagement strategies could enhance the success of early childhood parenting programs and linkages with early educational programming.
AB - Culturally congruent parenting programs delivered during early childhood have the potential to support diverse families. Legacy for Children™ (Legacy) is a groupbased prevention program designed to promote child development by reinforcing sensitive, responsive mother–child relationships, building maternal self-efficacy, and fostering peer networks of support among mothers living in poverty (Perou et al., 2012). The Legacy program was translated and culturally adapted for Spanishspeaking Latina mothers and their infants with a feasibility trial conducted to determine the cultural congruency of the adaptation. Feasibility results were positive with no previous studies validating the adapted Legacy Spanish program. The current manuscript focuses on understanding factors of engagement of the culturally adapted model. Specifically, we examined the factors that were perceived to have enhanced or hindered both initial and sustained engagement in the adapted Legacy Spanish program for Latina mothers. Individual interviews were conducted with Latina mothers (N = 26) who attended the Legacy Spanish program. We used qualitative data analysis to identify broad themes in Latina mothers’ responses. Themes emerged regarding the importance of using home-based recruitment strategies and pairing verbal information with written brochures to foster initial engagement. Sustained engagement themes focused on the provision of support from other Latina mothers in the Legacy group and the relationships with the group leaders. Having group leaders who were perceived as genuine, kind, positive, “good” at teaching, and persistent emerged as themes that facilitated initial and ongoing engagement. Barriers to engagement centered primarily on logistics rather than characteristics of the program itself. Thus, Latina mothers attributed importance to aspects of the curriculum, logistics, and implementation with respect to program engagement. Application of similar engagement strategies could enhance the success of early childhood parenting programs and linkages with early educational programming.
KW - Cultural adaptation
KW - Engagement
KW - Parenting programs
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85090198288&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.ecresq.2020.08.003
DO - 10.1016/j.ecresq.2020.08.003
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85090198288
SN - 0885-2006
VL - 54
SP - 99
EP - 109
JO - Early Childhood Research Quarterly
JF - Early Childhood Research Quarterly
ER -