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Trial reportDevelopmental medicine and child neurology2016

Randomized controlled trial of a home-visiting intervention on infant cognitive development in peri-urban South Africa.

Lynne Murray, Peter Cooper, Adriane Arteche, Alan Stein, Mark Tomlinson

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Trial report in Developmental medicine and child neurology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers, 7 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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  8. Effects of Two Early Parenting Programmes on Child Aggression and Risk for Violence in Brazil: a Randomised Controlled Trial.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2024
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  9. Home Visiting and Antenatal Depression Affect the Quality of Mother and Child Interactions in South Africa.Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2019
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Lynne MurraySchool of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading, Reading, UK.
Peter CooperSchool of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading, Reading, UK.
Adriane ArtecheFaculdade de Psucologia, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Alan SteinDepartment of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Mark TomlinsonDepartment of Psychology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa.

Funding

The Global Partnership for AIDS Behavioral Research: South Africa and U.S.R24AA022919 · NIAAA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI ROTHERAM-BORUS, MARY JANE · 2013 to 2017
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NIAAA NIH HHS R24 AA022919Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust B574100
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

aimTo determine whether, in an impoverished South African community, an intervention that benefitted infant attachment also benefitted cognitive development.

methodPregnant females were randomized to intervention (n=220) and no-treatment control groups (n=229). The intervention was home-based parenting support for attachment, delivered until 6 months postpartum. At 18 months, infants were assessed on attachment and cognitive development (Bayley Scales Mental Development Index [MDI]) (n=127 intervention, n=136 control participants). Infant MDI was examined in relation to intervention, socio-economic risk, antenatal depression, and infant sex and attachment.

resultsOverall, there was little effect of the intervention on MDI (p=0.094, d=0.20), but there was an interaction between intervention and risk (p=0.03, ηp2=0.02). MDI scores of infants of lower risk intervention group mothers were, on average, 4.84 points higher than those of other infants (p=0.002, d=0.41). Antenatal depression was not significant once intervention and risk were controlled (p=0.08); there was no association between infant MDI and either sex (p=0.41) or attachment (p=0.56).

interpretationParenting interventions for infant cognitive development may benefit from inclusion of specific components to support infant cognition beyond those that support attachment, and may be most effective for infants over 6 months. They may need augmentation with other input where adversity is extreme.

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Object AttachmentAdolescentAdultAnimalsChild DevelopmentCognitionCommunity Health WorkersCounselingFemaleHome Care ServicesHumansInfantInfant, NewbornMaleMothersParenting

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PMID26303135
PMCPMC4945696

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