TY - JOUR
T1 - Home-based early intervention and the influence of family resources on cognitive development
AU - Bann, Carla M.
AU - Wallander, Jan L.
AU - Do, Barbara
AU - Thorsten, Vanessa
AU - Pasha, Omrana
AU - Biasini, Fred J.
AU - Bellad, Roopa
AU - Goudar, Shivaprasad
AU - Chomba, Elwyn
AU - McClure, Elizabeth
AU - Carlo, Waldemar A.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Global Network for Women's and Children's Health Research and the National Institute of Neurologic Disorders and Stroke (grants HD43464, HD42372, HD40607, and HD40636), the Fogarty International Center (TW006703).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 by the American Academy of Pediatrics.
PY - 2016/4
Y1 - 2016/4
N2 - Objective: To investigate whether early developmental intervention (EDI) can positively affect the trajectories of cognitive development among children from low-resource families. Methods: Longitudinal analyses were conducted of data from 293 children in the Brain Research to Ameliorate Impaired Neurodevelopment Home-based Intervention Trial, a randomized controlled trial of a home-based EDI program, to examine trajectories of Bayley Scales of Infant Development-Second Edition Mental Development Index (MDI) scores from 12 to 36 months of age among young children from high-and low-resource families in 3 low-to middle-resource countries. Results: A 3-way interaction among family resources, intervention group, and age was statistically significant after controlling for maternal, child, and birth characteristics (Wald χ2(1) = 9.41, P =.002). Among children of families with high resources, both the intervention and control groups had significant increases in MDI scores over time (P <.001 and P =.002, respectively), and 36-month MDI scores for these 2 groups did not differ significantly (P =.602). However, in families with low resources, the EDI group displayed greater improvement, resulting in significantly higher 36-month MDI scores than the control group (P <.001). In addition, the 36-month MDI scores for children in families with low resources receiving EDI did not differ significantly from children from high-resource families in either the EDI (P =.509) or control (P =.882) groups. Conclusions: A home-based EDI during the first 3 years of life can substantially decrease the developmental gap between children from families with lower versus higher resources, even among children in low-to middle-resource countries.
AB - Objective: To investigate whether early developmental intervention (EDI) can positively affect the trajectories of cognitive development among children from low-resource families. Methods: Longitudinal analyses were conducted of data from 293 children in the Brain Research to Ameliorate Impaired Neurodevelopment Home-based Intervention Trial, a randomized controlled trial of a home-based EDI program, to examine trajectories of Bayley Scales of Infant Development-Second Edition Mental Development Index (MDI) scores from 12 to 36 months of age among young children from high-and low-resource families in 3 low-to middle-resource countries. Results: A 3-way interaction among family resources, intervention group, and age was statistically significant after controlling for maternal, child, and birth characteristics (Wald χ2(1) = 9.41, P =.002). Among children of families with high resources, both the intervention and control groups had significant increases in MDI scores over time (P <.001 and P =.002, respectively), and 36-month MDI scores for these 2 groups did not differ significantly (P =.602). However, in families with low resources, the EDI group displayed greater improvement, resulting in significantly higher 36-month MDI scores than the control group (P <.001). In addition, the 36-month MDI scores for children in families with low resources receiving EDI did not differ significantly from children from high-resource families in either the EDI (P =.509) or control (P =.882) groups. Conclusions: A home-based EDI during the first 3 years of life can substantially decrease the developmental gap between children from families with lower versus higher resources, even among children in low-to middle-resource countries.
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U2 - 10.1542/peds.2015-3766
DO - 10.1542/peds.2015-3766
M3 - Article
C2 - 26977079
AN - SCOPUS:84962548793
SN - 0031-4005
VL - 137
JO - Pediatrics
JF - Pediatrics
IS - 4
ER -