Psychiatric outcomes following severe deprivation in early childhood: Follow-up of a randomized controlled trial at age 16.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Early psychosocial deprivation is associated with increased risk for psychopathology, yet few studies have examined outcomes in adolescents.

Method

At baseline (M age 22 months), 136 children from Bucharest, Romania, living in large institutions, were randomized into foster care (FCG) or to care as usual (CAUG). Caregivers completed psychiatric interviews regarding their children (52 FCG; 51 CAUG) at age 16 years (M = 16.67 years; SD = 0.78) to assess past year diagnoses and symptom counts. In addition, never-institutionalized community comparison children (n = 47) were included.

Results

Ever-institutionalized children had higher rates of meeting criteria for any psychiatric disorder and higher symptom counts of internalizing, externalizing, attention-defici

SUBMITTER: Humphreys KL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7909607 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature