ArticleChild psychiatry and human development2026
Early Formal Childcare and Adolescent Psychological Wellbeing in the Millennium Cohort Study: The Role of Socio-economic Position.
Article in Child psychiatry and human development, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
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.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Little research has analysed the relation between childcare and positive psychological wellbeing, e.g., self-esteem and life satisfaction. Using data from the UK Millennium Cohort Study, this paper investigates the association of the age of starting and intensity of formal childcare with self-esteem trajectories between 11 and 17 years and life satisfaction at 11 and 14 years (N = 5,484). Proportional odds for having greater psychological wellbeing and odds ratios for having good compared to poor psychological wellbeing (lowest 25% scores) were estimated. After controlling for children's socio-economic position, childcare was not associated with self-esteem or life satisfaction. Changes in estimates after adjustment show that children from a lower socio-economic position attended less childcare and had lower odds of later psychological wellbeing.
Indexed as
Identifiers
42371381What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.