A randomized controlled trial comparing foster care and institutional care for children with signs of reactive attachment disorder.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The authors examined signs of emotionally withdrawn (inhibited type) and indiscriminately social (disinhibited type) reactive attachment disorder in Romanian children enrolled in a randomized trial of foster care compared with institutional care and in a comparison group of never-institutionalized children.

Method

At baseline and when children were ages 30, 42, and 54 months and 8 years, caregivers were interviewed with the Disturbances of Attachment Interview to assess changes in signs of reactive attachment disorder in three groups of children: those receiving care as usual (including continued institutional care) (N=68); those placed in foster care after institutional care (N=68); and those who were never institutionalized (N=72). The impact of gender, ethnicity

SUBMITTER: Smyke AT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4158103 | biostudies-literature | 2012 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature