Lynne Murray1,2, Peter Cooper1,2, Adriane Arteche3, Alan Stein4,5, Mark Tomlinson2. 1. School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading, Reading, UK. 2. Department of Psychology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa. 3. Faculdade de Psucologia, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil. 4. Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. 5. School of Public Health, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Abstract
AIM: To determine whether, in an impoverished South African community, an intervention that benefitted infant attachment also benefitted cognitive development. METHOD:Pregnant females were randomized to intervention (n=220) and no-treatment control groups (n=229). The intervention was home-based parenting support for attachment, delivered until 6 months postpartum. At 18 months, infants were assessed on attachment and cognitive development (Bayley Scales Mental Development Index [MDI]) (n=127 intervention, n=136 control participants). Infant MDI was examined in relation to intervention, socio-economic risk, antenatal depression, and infant sex and attachment. RESULTS: Overall, there was little effect of the intervention on MDI (p=0.094, d=0.20), but there was an interaction between intervention and risk (p=0.03, ηp2=0.02). MDI scores of infants of lower risk intervention group mothers were, on average, 4.84 points higher than those of other infants (p=0.002, d=0.41). Antenatal depression was not significant once intervention and risk were controlled (p=0.08); there was no association between infant MDI and either sex (p=0.41) or attachment (p=0.56). INTERPRETATION: Parenting interventions for infant cognitive development may benefit from inclusion of specific components to support infant cognition beyond those that support attachment, and may be most effective for infants over 6 months. They may need augmentation with other input where adversity is extreme.
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AIM: To determine whether, in an impoverished South African community, an intervention that benefitted infant attachment also benefitted cognitive development. METHOD: Pregnant females were randomized to intervention (n=220) and no-treatment control groups (n=229). The intervention was home-based parenting support for attachment, delivered until 6 months postpartum. At 18 months, infants were assessed on attachment and cognitive development (Bayley Scales Mental Development Index [MDI]) (n=127 intervention, n=136 control participants). Infant MDI was examined in relation to intervention, socio-economic risk, antenatal depression, and infant sex and attachment. RESULTS: Overall, there was little effect of the intervention on MDI (p=0.094, d=0.20), but there was an interaction between intervention and risk (p=0.03, ηp2=0.02). MDI scores of infants of lower risk intervention group mothers were, on average, 4.84 points higher than those of other infants (p=0.002, d=0.41). Antenatal depression was not significant once intervention and risk were controlled (p=0.08); there was no association between infant MDI and either sex (p=0.41) or attachment (p=0.56). INTERPRETATION: Parenting interventions for infant cognitive development may benefit from inclusion of specific components to support infant cognition beyond those that support attachment, and may be most effective for infants over 6 months. They may need augmentation with other input where adversity is extreme.
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