Increasing Latino Parents’ Verbal Interactions with Their Preschool-Aged Children

Table 1

Preintervention demographics of participating Latino parent-child dyads (𝑁=79).

Domain	Literacy intervention		Healthy lifestyles intervention		𝑃 value ^1
Child	Mean	S.D.	Mean	S.D.
Age	4.1	0.9	4.2	0.9	0.85
Gender (% female)	54.6		45.7		1.00
Adult
Age	32.3	5.7	30.7	6.0	0.22
Acculturation ^2	1.4	0.6	1.3	0.5	0.55
Relationship to child ^3	93%		94%		1.00
Maternal education ^4					0.75
<High school	64%		66%
≥HS < college	27%		31%
≥College	9%		3%

¹ T-tests were used except for categorical variables (those reported only in percentages) where exact Fisher tests were used.
² Short Acculturation Scale for Hispanics (SASH).
³ Percentage of respondents who are mothers.
⁴ Percentage of adults by education category in each group.