MOTHEREAD, Inc.

Gene Beal
3924 Browning Place, Suite 7
Raleigh, NC 27628 		    Telephone: (919) 781-2088

Program Description

Focus Area     Age Group
Parent Education and Involvement; Early Literacy, Family Literacy     Parents
     

Research Description

Outcomes
  • Increased positive parenting attitudes
  • Decreased depression scores
  • Decreased negative self-evaluation scores and external locus of control scores

Research Category

       5   Local Research (Program evaluation report was reviewed.)

Design

   Other   Pre-posttest design with experimental group only

Multiple Studies

   No   No other study using a experimental or quasi-experimental (with control group) as been conducted.

Sample Size

   >50   Experimental Group=68 mothers

Valid/ Reliable
Instrument

   Yes   Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale; Self-Evaluation Inventory; Adult-Adolescent Parenting Inventory

Results

   Yes   Statistically significant. The effect size was not stated in the research

Published

   No   There are no published studies.

Follow-up Data

   No   There were no follow-up studies.

Award

   Yes   International Reading control scores Association Award for Services in the Promotion of Literacy; James B. Hunt Literacy Award; State of North Carolina Human Relations Council Award