Intervening Early With Neglected Children: Key Childhood Outcomes
试验速览
- 阶段
- 1 期
- 入组人数
- 220
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Inhibitory control
研究概览
简要总结
This study will assess early and middle childhood outcomes of an intervention for neglecting parents that was implemented in the children's infancy. We expect that parents who received the Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up Intervention in infancy will be more nurturing and will follow children's lead more than parents who received a control intervention, and that children will show better outcomes in attachment, inhibitory control, emotion regulation, and peer relations than children of parents who received the control intervention.
详细描述
Children were randomly assigned to receive the ABC intervention or a control intervention (DEF) in infancy. These two groups, plus a group of low-risk children, will be studied in early and middle childhood. Of interest will be differences in parent and child outcomes that result from the intervention.
Hypothesis 1: Neglected children whose parents received the ABC intervention and low-risk comparison children will show better inhibitory control than neglected children whose parents received the DEF intervention.
Hypothesis 2: Children in the ABC intervention condition and low-risk comparison children will show better emotion regulation than children in the DEF condition.
Hypothesis 3: Children in the ABC intervention condition and comparison children will show less reactive aggression and less hostile attributional bias than children in the DEF condition.
Hypothesis 4: Children in the ABC condition and comparison children will show more normative cortisol production than children in the DEF condition.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Prevention
- 盲法
- Quadruple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 6 Years 至 8 Years（Child）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •must have been in earlier randomized clinical trial
排除标准
- 未提供
研究组 & 干预措施
Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up
Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up - 10 session intervention to enhance nurturance and following the lead
干预措施: Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up (Behavioral)
Low-risk
Low-risk comparison group
Developmental Education for Families
Developmental Education for Families - 10 session intervention that targets cognitive development
干预措施: Developmental Education for Families (Behavioral)
结局指标
主要结局
Inhibitory control
时间窗: Child age of 36 months
DB-DOS- children who successfully do not touch forbidden toys
Emotion regulation
时间窗: Child age of 36 months
Children will complete emotion regulation tasks (Perfect Circle and Disappointing Gift)
Cortisol production
时间窗: Child age of 10
Salivary cortisol levels collected at wake-up and bedtime
Attachment
时间窗: Age 18 months
Attachment assessed through Strange Situation
Child diagnosis
时间窗: Child age of 10
Parents will complete diagnostic interview.
Peer relations
时间窗: Child age of 10 years
Social information processing will be assessed through children's responses to videos of peer provocations.
Child aggression
时间窗: Child age of 10
Children will complete video game that will allow assessment of reactive and proactive aggression.
Cortisol production
时间窗: Child age of 24 months
Salivary cortisol levels collected at wake-up and bedtime
Cortisol production
时间窗: Child age of 8
Salivary cortisol levels collected at wake-up and bedtime
次要结局
- Parent neural activity assessed through event related potentials(Child age 4)
- Parent Attachment Script Knowledge(Child age of 9)
- Child inhibitory control in middle childhood(Child age 8)
- Child attachment security (self-reported on Kerns' Attachment Inventory)(Child age 10)
- Parental sensitivity(Child age of infancy (12-24 months child age))
- Child attachment security (narrative measure)(Child age 9)
- Autonomic nervous system activity(Child age 10)
- Child brain activity(Child age 9)
- Alpha and theta wave(Child age 9)
- Round Robin Assessment of Peer Rejection(Child age 9)
- Parental sensitivity using Parent-Child Interaction Coding System(Child age 9)
- Body mass index(Age 4)
- Autonomic nervous system activity(Child age 8)
- Child attachment security (self-reported on Kerns' Attachment Inventory)(Child age 9)
- Body mass index(Age 3)
研究者
Mary Dozier
Principal Investigator
University of Delaware