Early Childhood Education and Adult Depression: An Attrition Reanalysis With Inverse Propensity Score Weighting.

ABSTRACT: In a previous study of the Child-Parent Centers (CPC) education program, preschool participation was linked to a 4.6 percentage point reduction (26%) in depressive symptoms at ages 22-24 over the matched comparison group enrolling the usual programs. The present study reanalyzed these data in the Chicago Longitudinal Study to address potential attrition bias since more than a quarter of the sample was missing on the outcome. Using inverse probability weighting (IPW) involving 32 predictors of sample retention, findings for the 1,142 participants growing up in high-poverty neighborhoods indicated that CPC participation was associated with a 7.1 percentage point reduction (95% CI = [-9.7, -5.4]) in one or more depressive symptoms (39% reduction over the comparison group). Although this margi

SUBMITTER: Mondi CF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8127666 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature