Trial reportThe Journal of pediatrics2014
Motor outcomes in children exposed to early psychosocial deprivation.
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- The Consequences of Foster Care Versus Institutional Care in Early Childhood on Adolescent Cardiometabolic and Immune Markers: Results From a Randomized Controlled Trial.Psychosomatic medicine · 2019Trial
- Impact of a child stimulation intervention on early child development in rural Peru: a cluster randomised trial using a reciprocal control design.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2017Trial
- Environmental Enrichment Therapy for Autism: Outcomes with Increased Access.Neural plasticity · 2016Trial
- Social communication difficulties and autism in previously institutionalized children.Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2015Trial
- Childhood post-adoption experiences and the long-term trajectories of deprivation-specific neurodevelopmental problems: a longitudinal study of the English and Romanian adoptee cohort.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2026Article
- Toward preventive interventions in developmental coordination disorder: in need of early behavioral markers?Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2026Review
- Exploring Cultural Bias in Two Different Motor Competence Test Batteries When Used in African Children.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- The role of sociodemographic and psychosocial variables in early childhood development: A secondary data analysis of the 2014 and 2019 Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys in the Dominican Republic.PLOS global public health · 2022Article
- Test of Motor Proficiency Second Edition (BOT-2) Short Form: A Systematic Review of Studies Conducted in Healthy Children.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Potential health-related behaviors for pre-school and school-aged children during COVID-19 lockdown: A narrative review.Preventive medicine · 2021Review
- Health-Related Behaviors Among School-Aged Children and Adolescents During the Spanish Covid-19 Confinement.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2020Article
- The effects of touch-screen technology usage on hand skills among preschool children: a case-control study.F1000Research · 2020Article
- Enriching Communicative Environments: Leveraging Advances in Neuroplasticity for Improving Outcomes in Neurogenic Communication Disorders.American journal of speech-language pathology · 2019Review
- Converging on child mental health - toward shared global action for child development.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2017Article
- The cruel and unusual phenomenology of solitary confinement.Frontiers in psychology · 2014Article
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Abstract
objectivesTo determine the effect of psychosocial deprivation early in life on motor development, assess the impact of a foster care intervention on improving motor development, and assess the association between motor and cognitive outcomes in children with a history of institutional care. STUDY
designIn a randomized controlled trial, children living in Romanian institutions were randomly assigned to care as usual in the institution or placed in family-centered foster care as part of the Bucharest Early Intervention Project. The average age at placement into foster care was 23 months. At age 8 years, the Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency, Second Edition, Short Form (BOT2-SF) was applied to assess the motor proficiency of children in both groups, as well as a never-institutionalized group from the Romanian community.
resultsChildren in the never-institutionalized group did significantly better on the BOT2-SF than children who had ever been institutionalized (P < .001). There was no significant difference in performance between children in the care as usual group and the foster care group. This finding also held true for all individual items on the BOT2-SF except sit-ups. Regression analyses revealed that the between-group and within-group differences in BOT2-SF scores were largely mediated by IQ.
conclusionEarly deprivation had a negative effect on motor development that was not resolved by placement in foster care. This effect was predominantly mediated by IQ. This study highlights the importance of monitoring for and addressing motor delays in children with a history of institutionalization, particularly those children with low IQ.
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