Effect of Foster Care Intervention on Trajectories of General and Specific Psychopathology Among Children With Histories of Institutional Rearing: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

It is unclear whether early institutional rearing is associated with more problematic trajectories of psychopathology from childhood to adolescence and whether assignment to foster care mitigates this risk.

Objectives

To examine trajectories of latent psychopathology factors-general (P), internalizing (INT), and externalizing (EXT)-among children reared in institutions and to evaluate whether randomization to foster care is associated with reductions in psychopathology from middle childhood through adolescence.

Design, setting, and participants

This longitudinal, intent-to-treat randomized clinical trial was conducted in Bucharest, Romania, where children residing in 6 institutions underwent baseline testing and were then randomly assigned to a care as usua

SUBMITTER: Wade M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6248099 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature