Trial reportJournal of neurodevelopmental disorders2020
Psychosocial deprivation and receptive language ability: a two-sample study.
Trial report in Journal of neurodevelopmental disorders, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT00747396 (The Bucharest Early Intervention Project), which is not on this map. Cited by 5 papers.
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The Bucharest Early Intervention Project: Effects of Early Psychosocial Deprivation on Mental Health in Adolescence
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5 citing papers in PubMed.
- Early Language Development in Infants and Toddlers with Hemato-Oncological Diseases: Preliminary Outcomes of a Shared Reading Intervention.Diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Working memory related brain-behavior associations in the context of socioeconomic and psychosocial deprivation.Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior · 2024Article
- Environmental contributions to cognitive development: The role of cognitive stimulation.Developmental review : DR · 2024Article
- Romania's Abandoned Children: The Effects of Early Profound Psychosocial Deprivation on the Course of Human Development.Current directions in psychological science · 2023Article
- Temporal stability of parent-reported behavior problems in late talkers over 2 years: a prospective case-control study from toddlerhood to preschool age.Journal of neurodevelopmental disorders · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe quality of early caregiving experiences is a known contributor to the quality of the language experiences young children receive. What is unknown is whether, and if so, how psychosocial deprivation early in life is associated with long-lasting receptive language outcomes.
methodsTwo prospective longitudinal studies examining early psychosocial deprivation/neglect in different contexts (i.e., deprivation due to institutional care or deprivation experienced by children residing within US families) and receptive language as assessed via the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) were used to assess the magnitude of these associations. First, 129 participants from the Bucharest Early Intervention Project, a randomized controlled trial of foster care as an alternative to institutional care in Romania, completed a receptive language assessment at age 18 years. Second, from the USA, 3342 participants from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study were assessed from infancy until middle childhood.
resultsChildren exposed to early institutional care, on average, had lower receptive language scores than their never institutionalized counterparts in late adolescence. While randomization to an early foster care intervention had no long-lasting association with PPVT scores, the duration of childhood exposure to institutional care was negatively associated with receptive language. Psychosocial deprivation in US families was also negatively associated with receptive language longitudinally, and this association remained statistically significant even after accounting for measures of socioeconomic status.
conclusionExperiences of psychosocial deprivation may have long-lasting consequences for receptive language ability, extending to age 18 years. Psychosocial deprivation is an important prospective predictor of poorer receptive language.
trial registrationBucharest Early Intervention Project ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00747396.
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