Home-Based Early Intervention and the Influence of Family Resources on Cognitive Development.

ABSTRACT:

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 ma

SUBMITTER: Bann CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10634254 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature