Intended Outcomes and Core Components of Primary Care-Based Literacy Promotion as Defined by Experts
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: Primary care-based literacy promotion enhances caregiver-child shared reading and child language outcomes, yet variation in implementation may dilute its impact. This study examines expert perspectives on intended outcomes of literacy promotion, as well as its core components, those necessary to achieve intended outcomes, and components that are recommended but adaptable to context.
METHODS: We purposively sampled health care and policy experts in primary care-based literacy promotion from the United States and Canada for online, in-depth interviews. Interviews were recorded, transcribed verbatim, and analyzed iteratively, engaging emergent and a priori codes based on the Components and Rationales for Effectiveness fidelity method and the team's prior work to identify themes.
RESULTS: We achieved saturation after 22 interviews with 24 participants (16 US participants, 8 Canadian). We identified 4 themes: 1) Traditionally, literacy promotion focused on enhancing preliteracy skills and school readiness. Over time, this outcome has evolved to include fostering early relational health as a foundational goal; 2) core components include a trusted clinician delivering a strength-based, family-centered message, while modeling developmentally-informed shared reading; 3) components that are adaptable to setting and context include literacy-rich clinical environments and community resource referrals; 4) experts diverged on whether providing a children's book during literacy…
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