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ReviewInternational journal of environmental research and public health2021

Mental Health and Social Development Effects of the Abecedarian Approach.

Joseph Sparling, Sharon Landesman Ramey, Craig T Ramey

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Review in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
3.3field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

3 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Joseph SparlingFrank Porter Graham Child Development Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
Sharon Landesman RameyFralin Biomedical Research Institute, and Departments of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Human Development, Virginia Tech, Roanoke, VA 24016, USA.
Craig T RameyFralin Biomedical Research Institute, and Departments of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Human Development, Virginia Tech, Roanoke, VA 24016, USA.
Biomedical Research Institute · USUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Abecedarian Approach is an early intervention and contains a broad-spectrum adult/child curriculum. The Approach has been studied in three longitudinal randomized controlled trials in the USA, starting in 1972 and continuing today. Recent research studies in multiple countries have examined the Abecedarian Approach during the first three years of life. The collective findings from these studies lead to the conclusion that human development is malleable, especially in the years before school entry, and that high-quality early intervention exerts positive, early, and long-lasting influences on human development, including social development and mental health.

Indexed as

Mental HealthSocial ChangeAdultChildCurriculumEarly Intervention, EducationalHumansSchoolsAbecedarianequitylanguage developmentmental healthsocial development

Identifiers

PMID34208853
PMCPMC8297297
OpenAlexW3174486316

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Registered trials

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