Enhancing parent-child communication through an intervention: Measured by parental perception

This descriptive study sought to determine if parent-child communication was effected by an intervention training program as perceived by the parents. The intervention training involved fifty-seven parents of second graders of a rural public elementary school. The intervention was designed to instruct parent participants on how to enhance their conversations about school with their second grade children. Pre and post surveys were utilized in order to answer the posed research questions. The researcher combined the Likert scale subcategory scores to report the percentages and frequency counts. A Chi-Square analysis was then computed to determine if a statistically significant difference existed between the characteristics of the participants and the way in which they answered the survey questions about communication. The data analysis for all questions demonstrated parents perceived an increase in parent-child communication.