title: Evaluation of an early, mass media parental support intervention.
abstract: This article reports on the evaluation of Parents Magazine, an age-paced newsletter distributed to parents starting with the birth of their children. The evaluation was carried out after the newsletter's first year of circulation. Measures were taken of reader satisfaction as well as impact on parents' knowledge, attitudes and behavior toward education and use of community resources. Findings indicated that the newsletter's penetration of families and their natural milieu was strong but that it had a limited impact. However, the parents who received the newsletter developed more positive attitudes toward community resources. The articles discusses the implication of these findings for future research.
authors.affiliation: Department of Community Health, Montreal General Hospital, 980, rue Guy, suite 300A, H3H 2K3, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Laurendeau
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Gagnon
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Desjardins
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Perreault
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kishchuk