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ArticleCanadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique2024

Childcare use and the social-emotional and behavioural outcomes of late-preterm and early-term born children at age 5: An analysis of the All Our Families longitudinal cohort.

Nikki Stephenson, Suzanne Tough, Carly McMorris, Tyler Williamson, Sheila McDonald, Amy Metcalfe

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Article in Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Nikki StephensonDepartment of Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada. nstephe@ucalgary.ca.ORCID 0000-0003-0124-7278
Suzanne ToughDepartment of Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.
Carly McMorrisSchool and Applied Child Psychology, Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.
Tyler WilliamsonDepartment of Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.
Sheila McDonaldDepartment of Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.
Amy MetcalfeDepartment of Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.

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Alberta Innovates #200700595
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesGestational age at birth (GA) shows an inverse gradient of risk with social-emotional and behavioural outcomes among children born late preterm (≥ 34 and < 37 weeks) and early term (≥ 37 and < 39 weeks). Childcare has the potential to influence this association. This study aimed to estimate the association between GA and social-emotional/behavioural problems among children born between ≥ 34 and < 41 weeks gestation, determine whether this association was modified by childcare use, and describe the relationship between childcare and behavioural and social-emotional functioning at age 5.

methodsUsing data from the All Our Families cohort (n = 1324), logistic regression models were used to model the association between GA and social-emotional/behavioural problems (BASC-2 composite scales at age 5). Models were fit with interaction terms between GA and childcare variables (amount, multiplicity, and type of childcare at age 3) to assess effect modification.

resultsGA showed no significant associations with social-emotional/behavioural problems at age 5, though the type of childcare significantly modified the association between GA and externalizing and internalizing problems. Neither the number of hours spent in childcare (amount) nor the number of childcare arrangements used (multiplicity) modified the association between GA and social-emotional/behavioural problems. However, multiplicity was associated with externalizing behavioural problems (aOR = 2.09, 95% CI 1.14‒3.83).

conclusionThis study found no significant association between GA and social-emotional/behavioural problems at age 5, though childcare type modified this association. Factors such as using multiple childcare arrangements to meet families' childcare needs have the potential to influence a child's social-emotional and behavioural functioning at age 5.

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Child Behavior DisordersChild CareChild BehaviorChild, PreschoolFemaleGestational AgeHumansInfant, NewbornInfant, PrematureLongitudinal StudiesMaleBehaviour, childChild developmentChild, preschoolCohort studiesDiseases/epidemiologyGestational ageInfant, premature

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PMID39048850
PMCPMC11644132

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