Supporting Head Start parents: impact of a text message intervention on parent–child activity engagement

Early Child Development and Care

Volumn 185, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1373-1389

  Hurwitz, Lisa B ^a   Lauricella, Alexis R ^a   Hanson, Ann ^b   Raden, Anthony ^b   Wartella, Ellen ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Ounce of Prevention Fund   (United States)

Author keywords

activities; early childhood; Head Start; intervention; parenting; text messaging

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938548307     PISSN: 03004430     EISSN: 14768275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03004430.2014.996217     Document Type: Article

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