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Adverse Childhood Experiences and Tobacco Use among Latinx Parents in the USA

Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, 2023
The current study aimed to understand the effects of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and cultural factors on Latinx parents' tobacco use. Tobacco use is the leading cause of death among Latinx individuals in the USA, and parental use has long-term secondary harm for children.
Fernanda Cross, Karen Chartier, Cristina Bares   +2 more
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Latinx parents of children with deafblindness: Tireless advocacy with mixed results

British Journal of Visual Impairment
Research focusing on advocacy efforts of Latinx parents of children with deafblindness is limited. The present phenomenological study explored the reported advocacy of Latinx parents and the effectiveness of those advocacy efforts. Five Latinx parents who immigrated to the United States and who had children with deafblindness who were elementary- or ...
Eleni Oikonomidoy, Maryann Demchak, Eleni Oikonomidoy   +2 more
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A Contextual Exploration of Parental Monitoring in Latinx Parent-Adolescent Dyads

Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2021
Parental monitoring of youth daily activities is a salient parenting strategy that has important implications for adolescents’ adjustment and safety. Limited research, however, has examined positive contextual factors that can facilitate parental monitoring behaviors in Latinx families. We examined parental warmth and neighborhood social processes (i.e.
Chang Zhao, Emily M. May, Dawn P. Witherspoon, Saskia Boggs, Mayra Bámaca-Colbert   +4 more
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Effects of a brief parenting intervention on Latinx mothers and their children

Family Process, 2021
AbstractParent‐Child Interactions (PCI) is a home visit parenting intervention designed to promote positive parenting and deter punitive approaches to child behavior management. With attention to the importance of providing efficacious interventions for families from diverse backgrounds, this study used a subsample from a larger randomized controlled ...
Abigail L. Mills, Luisa Lopez Mader, Jennifer Burke Lefever, Amy K. Nuttall, Kathryn Bigelow, Judith J. Carta, John G. Borkowski   +6 more
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Parent and Sibling Science Support for Latinx Adolescents

Social Psychology of Education, 2021
Although previous literature indicates that parents and siblings each provide key support for Latinx adolescents’ academic success, most studies have not considered how parents and siblings work as a system to support adolescents in science. Informed by theories on family systems and family influence on youth’s achievement and education, this study ...
Perla Ramos Carranza, Sandra D. Simpkins
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The Effectiveness of Online Divorce Education for Latinx Parents

Journal of Latinos and Education, 2022
Although divorce education programming is prevalent, research on how programs benefit certain ethnic groups is sparse. Addressing this research gap is important given the increasing ethnic diversity in the United States. In the current study, we applied a mixed-methods approach to examine the experiences of divorcing/separating Latinx parents (n = 371)
Turner, Joshua J., Kopystynska, Olena, Ferguson, Melissa, Bradford, Kay, Schramm, David G., Higginbotham, Brian J.   +5 more
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School Readiness Coaching in the Pediatric Clinic: Latinx Parent Perspectives

Academic Pediatrics, 2021
Children who enter school developmentally ready for kindergarten are more likely to succeed academically, be healthy and lead productive lives. However, low-income and minority children often enter kindergarten behind their more affluent peers. Pediatric clinics, as trusted family partners, are well positioned to provide school readiness (SR) support ...
Jaime W, Peterson, Nicole, Almanzar, Lisa J, Chamberlain, Lynne, Huffman, Taylor, Butze, Paloma, Marin-Nevarez, Janine S, Bruce   +6 more
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Parenting Contributions to Latinx Children’s Development in the Early Years

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2021
Despite comparatively high levels of poverty, Latinx parents, on average, provide their children with early home experiences that promote development at rates that at least equal that of other demographic groups. From a strength-based perspective, we describe the demographic heterogeneity among Latinx children during early childhood (zero to eight ...
Natasha J. Cabrera, Angelica Alonso, Yu Chen   +2 more
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Latinx parent engagement and school readiness

Journal of Early Childhood Research
Efforts to bolster the school readiness of Latinx children from low-income homes in the United States have focused on fostering parent engagement in children’s education. Measurement of parent engagement in early childhood however, has been critiqued for having too narrow a focus on school-based involvement and missing other aspects of Latinx parent ...
Rita Gabriela Barajas-Gonzalez, Alexandra Ursache, Dimitra Kamboukos, Keng-Yen Huang, Heliana Linares Torres, Sabrina Cheng, Devon Olson, Laurie Miller Brotman, Spring Dawson-McClure   +8 more
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Assessing Trust in Physician and Vaccine Hesitancy Among Hispanic/Latinx Parents

Hispanic Health Care International, 2023
Introduction: Representing the USA's largest ethnic/racial group, Hispanic/Latinx (HL) experience health challenges of proportional magnitude. This study investigates the prevalence of vaccine hesitancy among HL adults and trust in their child's pediatrician.
Hector Gonzalez, Mona S. Patel, Marieta Pehlivanova, Rita V. Burke   +3 more
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