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Trial reportPediatrics2014

Indiscriminate behaviors in previously institutionalized young children.

Mary Margaret Gleason, Nathan A Fox, Stacy S Drury, Anna T Smyke, Charles A Nelson, Charles H Zeanah

Abstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
In one paragraph

Trial report in Pediatrics, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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18citing papers in PubMed
11.1field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

18 citing papers in PubMed, 72 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Enhancing Parenting Quality for Young Children Adopted Internationally: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53
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  8. Course of Disinhibited Social Engagement Disorder From Early Childhood to Early Adolescence.Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2018
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  15. The course of early disinhibited social engagement among post-institutionalized adopted children.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2016
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  16. Discrimination of amygdala response predicts future separation anxiety in youth with early deprivation.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2016
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  17. Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders Among Children and Adolescents.Focus (American Psychiatric Publishing) · 2016
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Mary Margaret GleasonTulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana;
Nathan A Fox
Stacy S Drury
Anna T Smyke
Charles A Nelson
Charles H Zeanah
Tulane University · USHarvard University · USUniversity of Maryland, College Park · US

Funding

SYNAPTIC MECHANISMS IN HIPPOCAMPAL EPILEPTOGENESISP30HD018655 · NICHD · CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL BOSTON · PI POMEROY, SCOTT LOREN · 1985 to 2015
$26.2M
Telomeres as an Epigenetic Marker of Neurodevelopment and Early AdversityR21MH094688 · NIMH · TULANE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA · PI DRURY, STACY SCHMIDT · 2011 to 2012
$414k
NICHD NIH HHS P30 HD018655NIMH NIH HHS R21 MH094688
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveThis study included 54-month-old children with a history of institutional care. Our goal was to: (1) examine differences in indiscriminate social behaviors in children with a history of institutional care compared with home-reared children; (2) test whether foster care reduces indiscriminate social behaviors in a randomized controlled trial; and (3) examine early predictors of indiscriminate behaviors.

methodsParticipants were 58 children with a history of institutional care and 31 never-institutionalized control (NIG) subjects enrolled in a randomized controlled trial of foster care for institutional care, assessed from toddlerhood to 54 months. Indiscriminate social behaviors were measured naturalistically by using the Stranger at the Door procedure.

resultsIn the Stranger at the Door procedure, children with a history of institutional care left with a stranger at higher rates than NIG subjects (33% vs. 3.5%; P < .001). Children in the care as usual group left more than NIG subjects (41.9% vs. 3.6%; P ≤ .001). The differences between the foster care group (24.1%) and the care as usual group and between foster care group and NIG were not significant. In a logistic regression, early disorganized attachment behaviors, baseline developmental quotient, and caregiving quality after randomization contributed to variance at 54 months. In the same analysis using only children with a history of institutional care, only disorganized attachment contributed significantly to 54-month indiscriminate social behaviors (Exp[B] = 1.6 [95% confidence interval: 1.1-2.5]).

conclusionsObserved socially indiscriminate behaviors at 54 months were associated with prolonged exposure to institutional care. Young children raised in conditions of deprivation who fail to develop organized attachments as toddlers are at increased risk for subsequent indiscriminate behaviors.

Indexed as

Child BehaviorChild Behavior DisordersChild, InstitutionalizedChild, PreschoolFemaleFoster Home CareHumansInfantMaleattachmentindiscriminate social behaviorsinstitutional care

Identifiers

PMID24488743
PMCPMC3934326
OpenAlexW1996251892

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