Cognitive Recovery in Socially Deprived Young Children: The Bucharest Early Intervention Project
Tulane University · Boston Children's Hospital · +3 more institutions
Abstract
In a randomized controlled trial, we compared abandoned children reared in institutions to abandoned children placed in institutions but then moved to foster care. Young children living in institutions were randomly assigned to continued institutional care or to placement in foster care, and their cognitive development was tracked through 54 months of age. The cognitive outcome of children who remained in the institution was markedly below that of never-institutionalized children and children taken out of the institution and placed into foster care. The improved cognitive outcomes we observed at 42 and 54 months were most marked for the youngest children placed in foster care. These results point to the…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 82.55
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 20
Authors
6- CACharles A. NelsonCorresponding
Tulane University, Boston Children's Hospital, University of California, Los Angeles, University of Maryland, College Park, Temple University
- CHCharles H. Zeanah
Tulane University, Boston Children's Hospital, University of California, Los Angeles, University of Maryland, College Park, Temple University
- NANathan A. Fox
Tulane University, Boston Children's Hospital, University of California, Los Angeles, University of Maryland, College Park, Temple University
- PJPeter J. Marshall
Tulane University, Boston Children's Hospital, University of California, Los Angeles, University of Maryland, College Park, Temple University
- ATAnna T. Smyke
Tulane University, Boston Children's Hospital, University of California, Los Angeles, University of Maryland, College Park, Temple University
Topics & keywords
- Institutionalisation
- Foster care
- Cognition
- Intervention (counseling)
- Randomized controlled trial
- Institution
- Foster Home Care
- Medicine