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Table 2 Study outcomes and measures

From: The impact of interactive book sharing on child cognitive and socio-cognitive development (the REaL trial): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Outcomes

Measures

Method

Baseline assessment (T1)

Intervention

Post-assessment (T2)

First follow-up (T3)

Second follow-up (T4)

Primary outcomes

Child language

Receptive

Eye tracking: preferential looking task

x

 

x

x

 
  

Eye racking: pupil dilation task

x

 

x

  
  

EEG: N400

x

 

x

  
  

Parent report: CDI

x

 

x

x

x

 

Expressive

Parent report: CDI

x

 

x

x

x

Child socio-cognition (joint attention)

Initiating joint attention

Observation: ESCS

x

 

x

x

 
 

Responding to joint attention

Observation: ESCS

x

 

x

x

 

Secondary outcomes

Child executive function

 

Parent report: EEFQ

x

 

x

x

x

 

Simple inhibition

Observation: “prohibition task”

   

x

 
 

Inhibitory control

Tablet task: ECITT

   

x

 
 

Working memory

Observation: “hide and seek task”

   

x

 
 

Shifting

Observation: reversed categorization

   

x

 

Parental behavior

Sensitivity and reciprocity

Observation: BSSI

x

 

x

  
 

Cognitive scaffolding

Observation: BSSI

x

 

x

  
 

Cognitive scaffolding

Observation: “problem solving task”

x

 

x

  

Moderators

Parental socio-economic status

Parental level of education

Parent report

x

    

Home literacy environment

Reading habits

Parent report

x

 

x

x

x

Parental intervention compliance

Attendance record, intervention dose (amount of practice), intervention experience

Facilitator/parent report

 

x

   
  1. Abbreviations: EEG Electroencephalography, CDI Communication Development Inventory, ESCS Early Social Communication Scale, EEFQ Early Executive Functions Questionnaire, ECITT the Early Childhood Inhibitory Touchscreen Task, BSSI the Book Sharing Scale for Infants