Basic Environmental Supports for Positive Brain and Cognitive Development in the First Year of Life.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Defining basic psychosocial resources to facilitate thriving in the first year of life could tangibly inform policy and enhance child development worldwide.

Objective

To determine if key environmental supports measured as a thrive factor (T-factor) in the first year of life positively impact brain, cognitive, and socioemotional outcomes through age 3.

Design, setting, and participants

This prospective longitudinal cohort study took place at a Midwestern academic medical center from 2017 through 2022. Participants included singleton offspring oversampled for those facing poverty, without birth complications, congenital anomalies, or in utero substance exposures (except cigarettes and marijuana) ascertained prenatally and followed up prospectively for the fir

SUBMITTER: Luby JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10949150 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature