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Cheung RW, Austerberry C, Fearon P, Hayiou-Thomas ME, Leve LD, Shaw DS, Ganiban JM, Natsuaki MN, Neiderhieser JM, Reiss D. Disentangling genetic and environmental influences on early language development: The interplay of genetic propensity for negative emotionality and surgency, and parenting behavior effects on early language skills in an adoption study. Child Dev 2024; 95:699-720. [PMID: 37947162 PMCID: PMC11023813 DOI: 10.1111/cdev.14021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2023] [Revised: 07/22/2023] [Accepted: 09/11/2023] [Indexed: 11/12/2023]
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Parenting and children's temperament are important influences on language development. However, temperament may reflect prior parenting, and parenting effects may reflect genes common to parents and children. In 561 U.S. adoptees (57% male) and their birth and rearing parents (70% and 92% White, 13% and 4% African American, and 7% and 2% Latinx, respectively), this study demonstrated how genetic propensity for temperament affects language development, and how this relates to parenting. Genetic propensity for negative emotionality inversely predicted language at 27 months (β = -.15) and evoked greater maternal warmth (β = .12), whereas propensity for surgency positively predicted language at 4.5 years (β = .20), especially when warmth was low. Parental warmth (β = .15) and sensitivity (β = .19) further contributed to language development, controlling for common gene effects.
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- Department of Psychology, Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Psychology, Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Research Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, UCL, London, UK
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- Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburg, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, George Washington University, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside, California, USA
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- Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Yale Child Study Center, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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Burt SA, O'Keefe P, Johnson W, Thaler D, Leve LD, Natsuaki MN, Reiss D, Shaw DS, Ganiban JM, Neiderhiser JM. The Detection of Environmental Influences on Academic Achievement Appears to Depend on the Analytic Approach. Behav Genet 2024; 54:252-267. [PMID: 38587720 DOI: 10.1007/s10519-024-10179-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2023] [Accepted: 03/04/2024] [Indexed: 04/09/2024]
Abstract
One long-standing analytic approach in adoption studies is to examine correlations between features of adoptive homes and outcomes of adopted children (hereafter termed 'measured environment correlations') to illuminate environmental influences on those associations. Although results from such studies have almost uniformly suggested modest environmental influences on adopted children's academic achievement, other work has indicated that adopted children's achievement is routinely higher than that of their reared-apart family members, often substantially so. We sought to understand this discrepancy. We examined academic achievement and literacy-promotive features of the home in 424 yoked adoptive/biological families participating in the Early Growth and Development Study (EGDS; i.e., adopted children, adoptive mothers, birth mothers, and biological siblings of the adopted children remaining in the birth homes) using an exhaustive modeling approach. Results indicated that, as anticipated, adopted children scored up to a full standard deviation higher on standardized achievement tests relative to their birth mothers and reared-apart biological siblings. Moreover, these achievement differences were associated with differences in the literacy-promotive features of the adoptive and birth family homes, despite minimal measured environment correlations within adoptive families. A subsequent simulation study highlighted noise in measured environmental variables as an explanation for the decreased utility of measured environment correlations. We conclude that the field's heavy focus on measured environment correlations within adoptive families may have obscured detection of specific environmental effects on youth outcomes, and that future adoption studies should supplement their measured environment analyses with mean differences between reared-apart relatives.
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- S Alexandra Burt
- Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA.
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- Department of Neurology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA
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- College of Education, University of Oregon, Eugene, USA
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- Child Study Center, Yale University, New Haven, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA
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- Department of Psychology, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA
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- Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, USA
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Williams L, Oro V, Blackwell CK, Liu C, Miller EB, Ganiban J, Neiderhiser JM, DeGarmo DS, Shaw DS, Chen T, Natsuaki MN, Leve LD. Influence of early childhood parental hostility and socioeconomic stress on children's internalizing symptom trajectories from childhood to adolescence. Front Psychiatry 2024; 15:1325506. [PMID: 38694000 PMCID: PMC11062022 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1325506] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2023] [Accepted: 03/26/2024] [Indexed: 05/03/2024] Open
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Introduction Children and adolescents with elevated internalizing symptoms are at increased risk for depression, anxiety, and other psychopathology later in life. The present study examined the predictive links between two bioecological factors in early childhood-parental hostility and socioeconomic stress-and children's internalizing symptom class outcomes, while considering the effects of child sex assigned at birth on internalizing symptom development from childhood to adolescence. Materials and Methods The study used a sample of 1,534 children to test the predictive effects of socioeconomic stress at ages 18 and 27 months; hostile parenting measured at child ages 4-5; and sex assigned at birth on children's internalizing symptom latent class outcomes at child ages 7-9, 10-12, 13-15, and 16-19. Analyses also tested the mediating effect of parenting on the relationship between socioeconomic stress and children's symptom classes. Other covariates included parent depressive symptoms at child ages 4-5 and child race and ethnicity. Results Analyses identified three distinct heterogenous internalizing symptom classes characterized by relative symptom levels and progression: low (35%); moderate and increasing (41%); and higher and increasing (24%). As anticipated, higher levels of parental hostility in early childhood predicted membership in the higher and increasing symptom class, compared with the low symptom class (odds ratio (OR) = .61, 95% confidence interval (CI) [.48,.77]). Higher levels of early childhood socioeconomic stress were also associated with the likelihood of belonging to the higher-increasing symptom class compared to the low and moderate-increasing classes (OR = .46, 95% CI [.35,.60] and OR = .56, 95% CI [.44,.72], respectively). The total (c = .61) and direct (c' = .57) effects of socioeconomic stress on children's symptom class membership in the mediation analysis were significant (p <.001). Discussion Study findings suggest that intervening on modifiable bioecological stressors-including parenting behaviors and socioeconomic stressors-may provide important protective influences on children's internalizing symptom trajectories.
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- Lue Williams
- Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States
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- Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States
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- Department of Medical Social Sciences, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, United States
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- Department of Psychology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States
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- NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York University, New York, NY, United States
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- Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States
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- Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States
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- Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States
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- Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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- Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States
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- Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States
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- Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States
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Level RA, Zhang Y, Tiemeier H, Estabrook R, Shaw DS, Leve LD, Wakschlag LS, Reiss D, Neiderhiser JM, Massey SH. Unique influences of pregnancy and anticipated parenting on cigarette smoking: results and implications of a within-person, between-pregnancy study. Arch Womens Ment Health 2024; 27:301-308. [PMID: 37994923 DOI: 10.1007/s00737-023-01396-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2023] [Accepted: 11/03/2023] [Indexed: 11/24/2023]
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Not all pregnant individuals want to become parents and "parenting intention" can also vary within individuals during different pregnancies. Nevertheless, the potential impact of parenting intention on health-related behavior during pregnancy has been heavily underexplored. In this study, we employed a within-person between pregnancy design to estimate the effect of parenting-specific influences on smoking, separate from pregnancy-specific and individual-level influences. We quantified within-mother differences in smoking during pregnancies of infants they reared (n = 84) versus pregnancies of infants they placed for adoption at birth (n = 65) using multivariate mixed-effects Poisson regression models. Mean cigarettes/day declined as the pregnancy progressed regardless of whether infants were reared or placed. However, participants smoked fewer cigarettes/day during reared pregnancies. Relative to "adopted" pregnancies, smoking during "reared" pregnancies was lower by 24%, 41%, and 54% in first (95% CI 0.64-0.90; p = 0.001), second (95% CI 0.48-0.72; p < 0.001), and third trimesters (95% CI 0.36-0.59; p < 0.001), respectively, independent of between-pregnancy differences in maternal age, fetal sex, parity, and pregnancy complications. Female sex and nulliparity were protective. Parenting intention was associated with a protective effect on pregnancy smoking independent of pregnancy-specific influences and individual characteristics. Failure to consider the impact of parenting intention on health-related behavior during pregnancy could perpetuate an unrealistic expectation to "do what's best for the baby" and stigmatize women with unintended or unwanted pregnancies.
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- Rachel A Level
- Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA
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- Department of Medical Social Sciences, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA
- Institute for Innovations in Developmental Sciences, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Yale Child Study Center, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
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Chen T, Liu C, Molenaar PCM, Leve LD, Ganiban JM, Natsuaki MN, Shaw DS, Neiderhiser JM. Examining timing effects in the intergenerational transmission of anxiety and depressive symptoms: A genetically informed study. Dev Psychol 2024; 60:747-763. [PMID: 38358664 DOI: 10.1037/dev0001694] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/16/2024]
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The present study examined genetic, prenatal, and postnatal environmental pathways in the intergenerational transmission of anxiety and depressive symptoms from parents to early adolescents (when these symptoms start to increase), while considering timing effects of exposure to parent anxiety and depressive symptoms postnatally. The sample was from the Early Growth and Development Study, including 561 adopted children (57% male, 55% White, 13% Black/African American, 11% Hispanic/Latine, 20% multiracial, 1% other; 407 provided data in early adolescence) and their birth (BP) and adoptive parents (AP). Using a trait-state-occasion model with eight assessments from child ages 9 months to 11 years, we partitioned trait-like AP anxiety and depressive symptoms from time-specific fluctuations of AP anxiety and depressive symptoms. Offspring anxiety and depressive symptoms were assessed at 11 years (while controlling for similar symptoms at 4.5 years). Results suggested that time-specific fluctuations of AP1 (mostly mothers) anxiety/depressive symptoms in infancy (9 months) were indirectly associated with offspring anxiety/depressive symptoms at 11 years via offspring anxiety/depressive symptoms at 4.5 years; time-specific fluctuations of AP1 anxiety/depressive symptoms at child age 11 years were concurrently associated with offspring anxiety/depressive symptoms at 11 years. AP2 (mostly fathers) anxiety/depressive symptoms were not associated with offspring symptoms. Genetic and prenatal influences measured by BP internalizing problems were not associated with offspring symptoms. Results suggested infancy and early adolescence as developmental periods when children are susceptible to influences of parent anxiety and depressive symptoms. Preventive interventions should consider time-specific fluctuations in parent anxiety and depressive symptoms during these developmental periods. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).
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- Tong Chen
- Department of Psychology, Pennsylvania State University
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- Department of Psychology, Washington State University
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Towe-Goodman N, McArthur KL, Willoughby M, Swingler MM, Wychgram C, Just AC, Kloog I, Bennett DH, Berry D, Hazlehurst MF, James P, Jimenez MP, Lai JS, Leve LD, Gatzke-Kopp L, Schweitzer JB, Bekelman TA, Calub C, Carnell S, Deoni S, D’Sa V, Kelly C, Koinis-Mitchell D, Petriello M, Thapaliya G, Wright RJ, Zhang X, Kress AM. Green Space and Internalizing or Externalizing Symptoms Among Children. JAMA Netw Open 2024; 7:e245742. [PMID: 38598238 PMCID: PMC11007572 DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.5742] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2023] [Accepted: 02/08/2024] [Indexed: 04/11/2024] Open
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Importance Evidence suggests that living near green space supports mental health, but studies examining the association of green space with early mental health symptoms among children are rare. Objective To evaluate the association between residential green space and early internalizing (eg, anxiety and depression) and externalizing (eg, aggression and rule-breaking) symptoms. Design, Setting, and Participants Data for this cohort study were drawn from the Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes cohort; analysis was conducted from July to October 2023. Children born between 2007 and 2013 with outcome data in early (aged 2-5 years) and/or middle (aged 6-11 years) childhood who resided in 41 states across the US, drawing from clinic, hospital, and community-based cohorts, were included. Cohort sites were eligible if they recruited general population participants and if at least 30 children had outcome and residential address data to measure green space exposure. Nine cohorts with 13 sites met these criteria. Children diagnosed with autism or developmental delay were excluded, and 1 child per family was included. Exposures Green space exposure was measured using a biannual (ie, summer and winter) Normalized Difference Vegetation Index, a satellite image-based indicator of vegetation density assigned to monthly residential history from birth to outcome assessment. Main Outcome and Measures Child internalizing and externalizing symptoms were assessed using the Child Behavior Checklist for Ages 1½ to 5 or 6 to 18. The association between green space and internalizing and externalizing symptoms was modeled with multivariable linear regression using generalized estimating equations, adjusting for birthing parent educational level, age at delivery, child sex, prematurity, and neighborhood socioeconomic vulnerability. Models were estimated separately for early and middle childhood samples. Results Among 2103 children included, 1061 (50.5%) were male; 606 (29.1%) identified as Black, 1094 (52.5%) as White, 248 (11.9%) as multiple races, and 137 (6.6%) as other races. Outcomes were assessed at mean (SD) ages of 4.2 (0.6) years in 1469 children aged 2 to 5 years and 7.8 (1.6) years in 1173 children aged 6 to 11 years. Greater green space exposure was associated with fewer early childhood internalizing symptoms in fully adjusted models (b = -1.29; 95% CI, -1.62 to -0.97). No associations were observed between residential green space and internalizing or externalizing symptoms in middle childhood. Conclusions and Relevance In this study of residential green space and children's mental health, the association of green space with fewer internalizing symptoms was observed only in early childhood, suggesting a sensitive period for nature exposure. Policies protecting and promoting access to green space may help alleviate early mental health risk.
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- Nissa Towe-Goodman
- Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
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- Department of Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Education and Workforce Development, RTI International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
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- Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
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- Department of Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Department of Epidemiology, Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
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- Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of California, Davis, Sacramento
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- Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
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- Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle
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- Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Medical Social Sciences, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
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- Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon, Eugene
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- Department of Human Development and Family Studies, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of California, Davis, Sacramento
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- Lifecourse Epidemiology of Adiposity and Diabetes (LEAD) Center, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of California, Davis, Sacramento
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- Department of Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health Discovery & Tools, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington
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- Department of Pediatrics, Rhode Island Hospital, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
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- Department of Pediatrics, Rhode Island Hospital, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
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- Department of Pediatrics, Rhode Island Hospital, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
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- Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Department of Pharmacology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan
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- Department of Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Department of Epidemiology, Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
- Department of Pediatrics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York
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- Education and Workforce Development, RTI International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
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- Department of Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
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Zheng S, Mansolf M, McGrath M, Churchill ML, Bekelman TA, Brennan PA, Margolis AE, Nozadi SS, Bastain TM, Elliott AJ, LeWinn KZ, Hofheimer JA, Leve LD, Rennie B, Zimmerman E, Marable CA, McEvoy CT, Liu C, Sullivan A, Woodruff TJ, Ghosh S, Leventhal B, Ferrara A, Lewis J, Bishop S. Measurement bias in caregiver-report of early childhood behavior problems across demographic factors in an ECHO-wide diverse sample. JCPP Adv 2024; 4:e12198. [PMID: 38486952 PMCID: PMC10933609 DOI: 10.1002/jcv2.12198] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2023] [Accepted: 08/11/2023] [Indexed: 03/17/2024] Open
Abstract
Background Research and clinical practice rely heavily on caregiver-report measures, such as the Child Behavior Checklist 1.5-5 (CBCL/1.5-5), to gather information about early childhood behavior problems and to screen for child psychopathology. While studies have shown that demographic variables influence caregiver ratings of behavior problems, the extent to which the CBCL/1.5-5 functions equivalently at the item level across diverse samples is unknown. Methods Item-level data of CBCL/1.5-5 from a large sample of young children (N = 9087) were drawn from 26 cohorts in the Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes program. Factor analyses and the alignment method were applied to examine measurement invariance (MI) and differential item functioning (DIF) across child (age, sex, bilingual status, and neurodevelopmental disorders), and caregiver (sex, education level, household income level, depression, and language version administered) characteristics. Child race was examined in sensitivity analyses. Results Items with the most impactful DIF across child and caregiver groupings were identified for Internalizing, Externalizing, and Total Problems. The robust item sets, excluding the high DIF items, showed good reliability and high correlation with the original Internalizing and Total Problems scales, with lower reliability for Externalizing. Language version of CBCL administration, education level and sex of the caregiver respondent showed the most significant impact on MI, followed by child age. Sensitivity analyses revealed that child race has a unique impact on DIF over and above socioeconomic status. Conclusions The CBCL/1.5-5, a caregiver-report measure of early childhood behavior problems, showed bias across demographic groups. Robust item sets with less DIF can measure Internalizing and Total Problems equally as well as the full item sets, with slightly lower reliability for Externalizing, and can be crosswalked to the metric of the full item set, enabling calculation of normed T scores based on more robust item sets.
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- Shuting Zheng
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral SciencesUniversity of CaliforniaSan FranciscoCAUSA
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- Department of Medical Social SciencesFeinberg School of MedicineNorthwestern UniversityChicagoILUSA
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- Department of EpidemiologyJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public HealthBaltimoreMDUSA
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- Department of EpidemiologyJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public HealthBaltimoreMDUSA
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- Department of EpidemiologyColorado School of Public HealthAuroraCOUSA
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- Department of PsychiatryColumbia University Irving Medical CenterNew York State Psychiatric InstituteNew YorkNYUSA
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- Community Environmental HealthCollege of PharmacyHealth Sciences CenterUniversity of New MexicoAlbuquerqueNMUSA
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- Department of Population and Public Health SciencesUniversity of Southern CaliforniaLos AngelesCAUSA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral SciencesUniversity of CaliforniaSan FranciscoCAUSA
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- Department of PediatricsDivision of Neonatal‐Perinatal MedicineNorth Carolina at Chapel HillChapel HillNCUSA
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- Prevention Science InstituteUniversity of OregonEugeneORUSA
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- Health Sciences CenterDepartment of PediatricsCenter for Development and DisabilityUniversity of New MexicoNavajo Birth Cohort StudyAlbuquerqueNMUSA
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- Communication Sciences & DisordersNortheastern UniversityBostonMAUSA
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- School of MedicineUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel HillNeuroscience CurriculumChapel HillNCUSA
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- Department of PediatricsPape Pediatric Research InstituteOregon Health & Science UniversityPortlandORUSA
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- Department of PsychologyWashington State UniversityPullmanWAUSA
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- Center for Health and CommunityUniversity of CaliforniaSan FranciscoCAUSA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral SciencesUniversity of CaliforniaSan FranciscoCAUSA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Data Science & Coordinating Center for Clinical Trials (CCCT)University of Texas School of Public HealthHoustonTXUSA
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- University of ChicagoNavajo Birth Cohort StudyUniversity of New MexicoAlbuquerqueNMUSA
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- Division of ResearchKaiser Permanente Northern CaliforniaOaklandCAUSA
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- Navajo Birth Cohort StudyCommunity Environmental Health ProgramCollege of PharmacyUniversity of New MexicoAlbuquerqueNMUSA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral SciencesWeill Institute for NeurosciencesUniversity of CaliforniaSan FranciscoCAUSA
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Morales S, Bowers ME, Shuffrey L, Ziegler K, Troller-Renfree S, Hernandez A, Leach SC, McGrath M, Ola C, Leve LD, Nozadi SS, Swingler MM, Lai JS, Schweitzer JB, Fifer W, Camargo CA, Khurana Hershey GK, Shapiro ALB, Keating DP, Hartert TV, Deoni S, Ferrara A, Elliott AJ. Maternal education prospectively predicts child neurocognitive function: An environmental influences on child health outcomes study. Dev Psychol 2024:2024-56629-001. [PMID: 38407105 DOI: 10.1037/dev0001642] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/27/2024]
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A large body of research has established a relation between maternal education and children's neurocognitive functions, such as executive function and language. However, most studies have focused on early childhood and relatively few studies have examined associations with changes in maternal education over time. Consequently, it remains unclear if early maternal education is longitudinally related to neurocognitive functions in children, adolescents, and young adults. In addition, the associations between changes in maternal education across development and more broadly defined neurocognitive outcomes remain relatively untested. The current study leveraged a large multicohort sample to examine the longitudinal relations between perinatal maternal education and changes in maternal education during development with children's, adolescents', and young adults' neurocognitive functions (N = 2,688; Mage = 10.32 years; SDage = 4.26; range = 3-20 years). Moreover, we examined the differential effects of perinatal maternal education and changes in maternal education across development on executive function and language performance. Perinatal maternal education was positively associated with children's later overall neurocognitive function. This longitudinal relation was stronger for language than executive function. In addition, increases in maternal education were related to improved language performance but were not associated with executive functioning performance. Our findings support perinatal maternal education as an important predictor of neurocognitive outcomes later in development. Moreover, our results suggest that examining how maternal education changes across development can provide important insights that can help inform policies and interventions designed to foster neurocognitive development. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).
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- Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology, University of Maryland
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Seattle Children's Research Institute, University of Washington
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- Department of Counseling Psychology and Human Services, University of Oregon
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- Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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- Department of Medical Social Sciences, Northwestern University
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, Davis
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- Department of Pediatrics, Section of Endocrinology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
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- Department of Pediatrics, Brown University
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Leve LD, Oro V, Natsuaki MN, Harold GT, Neiderhiser JM, Ganiban JM, Shaw DS, DeGarmo DS. The pernicious role of stress on intergenerational continuity of psychopathology. Dev Psychopathol 2024:1-14. [PMID: 38384191 DOI: 10.1017/s0954579424000191] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/23/2024]
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Development and Psychopathology has been a premier resource for understanding stressful childhood experiences and the intergenerational continuity of psychopathology. Building on that tradition, we examined the unique and joint influences of maternal stress on children's effortful control (age 7) and externalizing behavior (age 11) as transmitted via genetics, the prenatal environment, and the postnatal environment. The sample included N = 561 adopted children and their biological and adoptive parents. Path models identified a direct effect of biological mother life stress on children's effortful control (β = -.08) and an indirect effect of her life stress on child externalizing behavior via effortful control (β = .52), but no main or indirect effects of biological parent psychopathology, prenatal stress, or adoptive mother adverse childhood experiences (ACES). Adoptive mother ACES amplified the association between biological mother life stress and child effortful control (β = -.08), externalizing behavior (β = 1.41), and the indirect effect via effortful control, strengthening associations when adoptive mothers reported average or high ACES during their own childhoods. Results suggest that novel study designs are needed to enhance the understanding of how life stress gets "under the skin" to affect psychopathology in the offspring of adults who have experienced stress.
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- Leslie D Leve
- Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA
- Department of Counseling Psychology and Human Services, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA
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- Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside, CA, USA
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- Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA
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Jansen E, Marceau K, Sellers R, Chen T, Garfield CF, Leve LD, Neiderhiser JM, Spotts EL, Roary M. The role of fathers in child development from preconception to postnatal influences: Opportunities for the National Institutes of Health Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) program. Dev Psychobiol 2024; 66:e22451. [PMID: 38388196 PMCID: PMC10902630 DOI: 10.1002/dev.22451] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2022] [Revised: 10/21/2023] [Accepted: 12/04/2023] [Indexed: 02/24/2024]
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A growing body of literature highlights the important role of paternal health and socioemotional characteristics in child development, from preconception through adolescence. Much of this research addresses the indirect effects of fathers, for instance, their influence on maternal behaviors during the prenatal period or via the relationship with their partner. However, emerging evidence also recognizes the direct role of paternal health and behavior for child health and adjustment across development. This critical review presents evidence of biological and sociocultural influences of fathers on preconception, prenatal, and postnatal contributions to child development. The National Institutes of Health Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) program incorporates in its central conceptualization the impact of fathers on family and child outcomes. This critical synthesis of the literature focuses on three specific child outcomes in the ECHO program: health outcomes (e.g., obesity), neurodevelopmental outcomes (e.g., emotional, behavioral, psychopathological development), and positive health. We highlight the unique insights gained from the literature to date and provide next steps for future studies on paternal influences.
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- Elena Jansen
- Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences , Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Human Development and Family Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
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- Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, USA
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- Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration, United States Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, Maryland, USA
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Franz DJ, Schweer-Collins ML, Cioffi CC, Leve LD. Adolescent child custody loss and substance use treatment as predictors of young adult substance use trajectories among females with foster care and juvenile justice involvement. Child Youth Serv Rev 2024; 157:107421. [PMID: 38371910 PMCID: PMC10868730 DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2023.107421] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/20/2024]
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This study aimed to identify trajectories of substance use from adolescence to young adulthood among 166 females with dual child welfare and juvenile justice system involvement, and to explore the influence of adolescent child custody status and substance use treatment on substance use trajectories. Results identified four substance use trajectory groups (stable moderate substance use, decreasing substance use, increasing substance use, stable high substance use). Custody loss during adolescence predicted membership in the stable high substance use trajectory group (log odds estimate = 2.99, p = < 0.01). No significant associations were found with adolescent substance use treatment. The findings can inform policymakers, foster care professionals, and law enforcement officers to promote the delivery of timely and appropriate substance use services that respond to the unique needs of females across the child welfare and juvenile justice system populations.
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- Daschel J. Franz
- Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon, 1600 Millrace Dr, Eugene, OR 97403, USA
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- Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon, 1600 Millrace Dr, Eugene, OR 97403, USA
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- Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon, 1600 Millrace Dr, Eugene, OR 97403, USA
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Sherlock P, Mansolf M, Blackwell CK, Blair C, Cella D, Deoni S, Fry RC, Ganiban J, Gershon R, Herbstman JB, Lai JS, Leve LD, LeWinn KZ, Margolis AE, Miller EB, Neiderhiser JM, Oken E, O'Shea TM, Stanford JB, Zelazo PD. Life satisfaction for adolescents with developmental and behavioral disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Pediatr Res 2024; 95:827-834. [PMID: 37875726 PMCID: PMC10922534 DOI: 10.1038/s41390-023-02852-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2023] [Revised: 08/18/2023] [Accepted: 08/23/2023] [Indexed: 10/26/2023]
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BACKGROUND This study aimed to identify contextual factors associated with life satisfaction during the COVID-19 pandemic for adolescents with mental, emotional, behavioral, and developmental (MEBD) disabilities. METHODS Data were collected from a sample of 1084 adolescents aged 11-21 years from April 2020 to August 2021. This cross-sectional study used a sequential machine learning workflow, consisting of random forest regression and evolutionary tree regression, to identify subgroups of adolescents in the Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) consortium who demonstrated enhanced vulnerability to lower life satisfaction as described by intersecting risk factors, protective factors, and MEBD disabilities. RESULTS Adolescents with a history of depression, anxiety, autism, and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder were particularly susceptible to decreased life satisfaction in response to unique combinations of stressors experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic. These stressors included decreased social connectedness, decreased family engagement, stress related to medical care access, pandemic-related traumatic stress, and single-caregiver households. CONCLUSION Findings from this study highlight the importance of interventions aimed specifically at increasing adolescent social connectedness, family engagement, and access to medical support for adolescents with MEBD disabilities, particularly in the face of stressors, such as a global pandemic. IMPACT Through a machine learning process, we identified contextualized risks associated with life satisfaction among adolescents with neurodevelopmental disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in large-scale social disruptions for children and families. Such disruptions were associated with worse mental health outcomes in the general pediatric population, but few studies have examined specific subgroups who may be at heightened risk. We endeavored to close that gap in knowledge. This study highlights the importance of social connectedness, family engagement, and access to medical support as contributing factors to life satisfaction during the COVID-19 pandemic for adolescents with neurodevelopmental disabilities.
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- Phillip Sherlock
- Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA.
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- Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA, USA
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- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA
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- Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA
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- University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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Schweer-Collins ML, Dierkhising CB, Leve LD. The long-term collateral consequences of juvenile justice involvement for females. Front Psychol 2024; 14:1321355. [PMID: 38259546 PMCID: PMC10800427 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1321355] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2023] [Accepted: 12/12/2023] [Indexed: 01/24/2024] Open
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Introduction Females are the fastest growing justice involved population in the United States, yet there is relatively little empirical research on the collateral consequences of juvenile justice involvement specifically for females. A growing body of empirical research underscores linkages between juvenile justice involvement and negative health and psychosocial outcomes, both in the short and long term. Method The current study describes the long-term collateral consequences of juvenile justice involvement for females previously involved in the juvenile justice system, drawing from a longitudinal dataset of 166 women who were initially recruited in adolescence due to chronic and severe justice system involvement. Participants were 15 years-old on average at study enrollment and 35 years-old on average at the current assessment. This paper describes the adolescent and adult experiences of the sample, therefore depicting the developmental trajectories of risk and protective factors for females involved with juvenile justice. Results As adults, 73% of the sample experienced arrest and 36% experienced incarceration. High rates of mental and physical health problems were reported, including that 50% of the sample met diagnostic criteria for posttraumatic stress disorder. Over 400 children were born to the sample, with high rates of documented intergenerational child welfare involvement. Discussion Study findings are discussed in the context of best practices for supporting adolescent girls involved with the juvenile justice system.
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- School of Criminal Justice and Criminalistics, California State University, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States
- Department of Counseling Psychology and Human Services, College of Education, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States
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Thierry KL, Hockett CW, Elliott AJ, Wosu AC, Chandran A, Blackwell CK, Margolis AE, Karagas MR, Vega CV, Duarte CS, Camargo CA, Lester BM, McGowan EC, Ferrara A, O'Connor TG, McEvoy CT, Hipwell AE, Leve LD, Ganiban JM, Comstock SS, Dabelea D. Associations between COVID-19-related family hardships/distress and children's Adverse Childhood Experiences during the pandemic: The Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) program. Child Abuse Negl 2023; 146:106510. [PMID: 37922614 DOI: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2023.106510] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2023] [Revised: 10/02/2023] [Accepted: 10/08/2023] [Indexed: 11/07/2023]
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BACKGROUND Economic hardships imposed by the pandemic could have implications for children's experiences of adversity in the home, or Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). OBJECTIVE This observational cohort study examined associations between COVID-19-related hardships and distress (e.g., job loss, caregiver stress) and the cumulative number of child ACEs reported by caregivers during the pandemic (i.e., March 1, 2020-February 28, 2022). PARTICIPANTS AND SETTING The study included children (N = 4345; median age = 6.0 years, interquartile range = 4-9 years) and their parents/caregivers who participated in the NIH-funded Environmental influences in Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program. METHODS We described socio-demographic characteristics and pandemic-related family hardships/distress and cumulative child ACE scores reported during pre-pandemic and pandemic periods. We used negative binomial regression models to evaluate associations between pandemic-related family hardships and cumulative child ACE scores reported during the pandemic. RESULTS Each caregiver-reported hardship/distress was associated with higher child ACE scores reported during the pandemic. After accounting for pre-pandemic child ACE scores, moderate and severe symptoms of pandemic-related traumatic stress among caregivers were associated with 108 % and 141 % higher child ACE scores reported during the pandemic, respectively, compared with no or low caregiver symptoms. In addition, finance-related stress during the pandemic was associated with 47 % higher child ACE scores. After adjusting for pre-pandemic child experiences of neglect, most sources of stress remained significantly associated with higher child ACE scores reported during the pandemic, particularly severe/very severe symptoms of pandemic-related traumatic stress among caregivers. Findings held for children with no known pre-pandemic ACEs. CONCLUSIONS This research suggests that caregivers experiencing financial hardships and those with severe pandemic-related traumatic stress may require additional support systems during stressful events.
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of South Dakota School of Medicine, Vermillion, SD, USA; Avera Research Institute, Sioux Falls, SD, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Medical Social Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA
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- Social Sciences Department, School of Public Health, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR
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- Columbia University Irving Medical Center - New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
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- Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research, Oakland, CA, USA
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- Departments of Psychiatry, Psychology, Neuroscience and Obstetrics & Gynecology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Education, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA
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- Department of Psychological and Behavioral Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA
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- Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
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- University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA
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Bates EJS, Berny LM, Ganiban JM, Natsuaki MN, Neiderhiser JM, Shaw DS, Leve LD. Examination of promotive and protective effects on early adolescent prosocial behavior through a bioecological lens. Front Psychol 2023; 14:1280346. [PMID: 38046108 PMCID: PMC10690822 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1280346] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2023] [Accepted: 10/26/2023] [Indexed: 12/05/2023] Open
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Introduction Prosocial behavior during childhood has been associated with numerous positive developmental and behavioral outcomes in adolescence and adulthood. Prosocial behavior, which includes cooperation and helping others, develops within a bioecological context. Considering it through such a lens enhances the understanding of the roles of different bioecological factors in its development. Methods Using data from a longitudinal study of adopted children and children reared with their biological parents, this paper examined if positive aspects of a child's bioecological system at age 7 predict prosocial behavior in early adolescence (age 11), and whether these bioecological factors could offset risk due to biological family psychopathology and/or maternal prenatal substance use. The analyses incorporated variables from different levels of Bronfenbrenner's bioecological model (the individual, microsystem, exosystem, and macrosystem) and examined the promotive, and potentially protective, effect of each contextual factor, while also considering their interplay with biological family psychopathology and prenatal substance use. Results Results from linear regression models indicated that the microsystem variable of parental warmth at age 7 had a promotive effect on age 11 prosocial behavior. Further, in addition to its main effect, parental warmth was protective against maternal substance use during pregnancy when children were raised with their biological parent (s). Household type (biological family) and biological family internalizing psychopathology were the only other significant predictors in the model, with each associated with lower prosocial behavior at age 11. Discussion Study results extend prior work on the benefits of parental warmth on child outcomes by employing a strength-based, bioecological approach to the development of prosocial behavior during early adolescence and examining "for whom" the effects of parental warmth are most protective.
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- Elizabeth J. S. Bates
- Department of Counseling Psychology and Human Services, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States
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- Department of Counseling Psychology and Human Services, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States
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- Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States
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- Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States
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- Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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- Department of Counseling Psychology and Human Services, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States
- Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States
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Tiberio SS, Pears KC, Buchanan R, Chamberlain P, Leve LD, Price JM, Hussong AM. An Integrative Data Analysis of Main and Moderated Crossover Effects of Parent-Mediated Interventions on Depression and Anxiety Symptoms in Youth in Foster Care. Prev Sci 2023; 24:1547-1557. [PMID: 36930405 DOI: 10.1007/s11121-023-01524-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/07/2023] [Indexed: 03/18/2023]
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Without preventative intervention, youth with a history of foster care (FC) involvement have a high likelihood of developing depression and anxiety (DA) symptoms. The current study used integrative data analysis to harmonize data across four foster and kinship parent-mediated interventions (and seven randomized control trials) designed to reduce youth externalizing and other problem behaviors to determine if, and for how long, these interventions may have crossover effects on youth DA symptoms. Moderation of intervention effects by youth biological sex, developmental period, number of prior placements, and race/ethnicity was also examined. Youth (N = 1891; 59% female; ages 4 to 18 years) behaviors were assessed via the Child Behavior Checklist, Parent Daily Report, and Eyberg Child Behavior Inventory at baseline, the end of the interventions (4-6 months post baseline), and two follow-up assessments (9-12 months and 18-24 months post baseline), yielding 4830 total youth-by-time assessments. The interventions were effective at reducing DA symptoms at the end of the interventions; however, effects were only sustained for one program at the follow-up assessments. No moderation effects were found. The current study indicates that parent-mediated interventions implemented during childhood or adolescence aimed at reducing externalizing and other problem behaviors had crossover effects on youth DA symptoms at the end of the interventions. Such intervention effects were sustained 12 and 24 months later only for the most at-risk youth involved in the most intensive intervention.
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- Stacey S Tiberio
- Oregon Social Learning Center, 10 Shelton McMurphey Blvd, Eugene, OR, 97401, USA.
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- Oregon Social Learning Center, 10 Shelton McMurphey Blvd, Eugene, OR, 97401, USA
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- Oregon Social Learning Center, 10 Shelton McMurphey Blvd, Eugene, OR, 97401, USA
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- Oregon Social Learning Center, 10 Shelton McMurphey Blvd, Eugene, OR, 97401, USA
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- Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon, Eugene, USA
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- Department of Psychology, San Diego State University, San Diego, USA
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, USA
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Blackwell CK, Sherlock P, Jackson KL, Hofheimer JA, Cella D, Algermissen MA, Alshawabkeh AN, Avalos LA, Bastain T, Blair C, Enlow MB, Brennan PA, Breton C, Bush NR, Chandran A, Collazo S, Conradt E, Crowell SE, Deoni S, Elliott AJ, Frazier JA, Ganiban JM, Gold DR, Herbstman JB, Joseph C, Karagas MR, Lester B, Lasky-Su JA, Leve LD, LeWinn KZ, Mason WA, McGowan EC, McKee KS, Miller RL, Neiderhiser JM, O’Connor TG, Oken E, O’Shea TM, Pagliaccio D, Schmidt RJ, Singh AM, Stanford JB, Trasande L, Wright RJ, Duarte CS, Margolis AE. Development and psychometric validation of the Pandemic-Related Traumatic Stress Scale for children and adults. Psychol Assess 2023; 35:1054-1067. [PMID: 37902671 PMCID: PMC10773574 DOI: 10.1037/pas0001211] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/31/2023]
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To assess the public health impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health, investigators from the National Institutes of Health Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) research program developed the Pandemic-Related Traumatic Stress Scale (PTSS). Based on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition (DSM-5) acute stress disorder symptom criteria, the PTSS is designed for adolescent (13-21 years) and adult self-report and caregiver-report on 3-12-year-olds. To evaluate psychometric properties, we used PTSS data collected between April 2020 and August 2021 from non-pregnant adult caregivers (n = 11,483), pregnant/postpartum individuals (n = 1,656), adolescents (n = 1,795), and caregivers reporting on 3-12-year-olds (n = 2,896). We used Mokken scale analysis to examine unidimensionality and reliability, Pearson correlations to evaluate relationships with other relevant variables, and analyses of variance to identify regional, age, and sex differences. Mokken analysis resulted in a moderately strong, unidimensional scale that retained nine of the original 10 items. We detected small to moderate positive associations with depression, anxiety, and general stress, and negative associations with life satisfaction. Adult caregivers had the highest PTSS scores, followed by adolescents, pregnant/postpartum individuals, and children. Caregivers of younger children, females, and older youth had higher PTSS scores compared to caregivers of older children, males, and younger youth, respectively. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).
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- Courtney K. Blackwell
- Department of Medical Social Sciences, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
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- Department of Medical Social Sciences, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
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- Department of Medical Social Sciences, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of North Carolina School of Medicine
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- Department of Medical Social Sciences, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, Northeastern University
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- Kaiser Permanente North California, Division of Research, Oakland, California, United States
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- Clinical Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California
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- New York University Grossman School of Medicine
- Department of Population Health, New York University Grossman School of Medicine
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- Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
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- Clinical Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco
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- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
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- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
- Department of Pediatrics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
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- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington, United States
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- Avera Research Institute, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States
- Department of Pediatrics, University of South Dakota School of Medicine
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
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- Department of Clinical/Developmental Psychology, George Washington University
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- Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
- Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
- Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health
- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health
- Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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- Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
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- Women & Infants Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island, United States
- Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown University
- Department of Pediatrics, Brown University
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- Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
- Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
- Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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- Department of Counseling Psychology and Human Services, University of Oregon College of Education
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco
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- Department of Child, Youth, and Family Studies, College of Education and Human Sciences, University of Nebraska—Lincoln
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- Women & Infants Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island, United States
- Department of Pediatrics, Brown University
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- Department of Family Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School
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- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
- Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
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- Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
- Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health
- Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School
- Department of Nutrition, Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of North Carolina School of Medicine
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- Columbia University Irving Medical Center
- New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, New York, United States
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- Department of Public Health Services, University of California—Davis School of Medicine
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
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- Department of Family and Preventative Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine
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- New York University Grossman School of Medicine
- Department of Pediatrics, New York University Grossman School of Medicine
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- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
- Department of Pediatrics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
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- Columbia University Irving Medical Center
- Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University
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- Columbia University Irving Medical Center
- Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University
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Liu C, Neiderhiser JM, Ram N, Leve LD, Shaw DS, Natsuaki MN, Reiss D, Ganiban JM. Modeling BMI z score lability during childhood as a function of child temperament and genetic risk for obesity. Obesity (Silver Spring) 2023; 31:2593-2602. [PMID: 37724056 PMCID: PMC10846492 DOI: 10.1002/oby.23867] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2023] [Revised: 06/15/2023] [Accepted: 06/21/2023] [Indexed: 09/20/2023]
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OBJECTIVE This study aimed to examine whether child genetic risk for obesity and temperament (i.e., negative affectivity, effortful control) accounted for stability versus lability in children's weight status (BMI z score) over time. METHODS A total of 561 adopted children (42% female; 56% Caucasian, 13% African American, 11% Latino, and 20% other) and their birth and adoptive parents were followed from birth to age 9 years. The multilevel location-scale model was used to examine whether child genetic risk for obesity and temperament were related to differences in level and lability in child BMI z scores over time. RESULTS For the full sample, higher levels of child negative affectivity were associated with greater BMI z score lability, whereas higher levels of effortful control and children's mean-level BMI z scores were related to less lability across childhood. Additional analyses examined associations within groups of children with healthy versus overweight/obesity weight statuses. Within the healthy weight status group only, better effortful control was associated with more stable BMI z scores, whereas genetic risk for higher BMI was associated with more labile BMI z scores. CONCLUSIONS These findings provide insights into factors that can be harnessed to redirect unhealthy trajectories as well as factors that may challenge redirection or maintain a healthy trajectory.
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- Chang Liu
- Washington State University, Department of Psychology, Pullman, WA, USA
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- The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Psychology, University Park, PA, USA
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- Stanford University, Departments of Psychology and Communication, Stanford, CA, USA
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- University of Oregon, Prevention Science Institute, Eugene, OR, USA
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- University of Pittsburgh, Department of Psychology, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- University of California, Riverside, Department of Psychology, Riverside, CA, USA
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- Yale University, Child Study Center, New Haven, CT, USA
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- George Washington University, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Washington, DC, USA
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Maylott SE, Conradt E, McGrath M, Knapp EA, Li X, Musci R, Aschner J, Avalos LA, Croen LA, Deoni S, Derefinko K, Elliott A, Hofheimer JA, Leve LD, Madan JC, Mansolf M, Murrison LB, Neiderhiser JM, Ozonoff S, Posner J, Salisbury A, Sathyanarayana S, Schweitzer JB, Seashore C, Stabler ME, Young LW, Ondersma SJ, Lester B. Latent Class Analysis of Prenatal Substance Exposure and Child Behavioral Outcomes. J Pediatr 2023; 260:113468. [PMID: 37182662 PMCID: PMC10524438 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2023.113468] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2022] [Revised: 03/30/2023] [Accepted: 04/21/2023] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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OBJECTIVES To predict behavioral disruptions in middle childhood, we identified latent classes of prenatal substance use. STUDY DESIGN As part of the Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes Program, we harmonized prenatal substance use data and child behavior outcomes from 2195 women and their 6- to 11-year-old children across 10 cohorts in the US and used latent class-adjusted regression models to predict parent-rated child behavior. RESULTS Three latent classes fit the data: low use (90.5%; n = 1986), primarily using no substances; licit use (6.6%; n = 145), mainly using nicotine with a moderate likelihood of using alcohol and marijuana; and illicit use (2.9%; n = 64), predominantly using illicit substances along with a moderate likelihood of using licit substances. Children exposed to primarily licit substances in utero had greater levels of externalizing behavior than children exposed to low or no substances (P = .001, d = .64). Children exposed to illicit substances in utero showed small but significant elevations in internalizing behavior than children exposed to low or no substances (P < .001, d = .16). CONCLUSIONS The differences in prenatal polysubstance use may increase risk for specific childhood problem behaviors; however, child outcomes appeared comparably adverse for both licit and illicit polysubstance exposure. We highlight the need for similar multicohort, large-scale studies to examine childhood outcomes based on prenatal substance use profiles.
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- Sarah E Maylott
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University, Durham, NC; Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT.
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University, Durham, NC; Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
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- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD
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- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD
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- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD
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- Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD
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- Department of Pediatrics, Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, Nutley, NJ; Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
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- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA
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- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA
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- Department of Pediatrics and Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI
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- Department of Preventive Medicine and Department of Pharmacology, Addiction Science, and Toxicology, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN
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- Avera Research Institute and Department of Pediatrics, University of South Dakota School of Medicine, Sioux Falls, SD
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- Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
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- Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
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- Department of Pediatrics, Psychiatry and Epidemiology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH
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- Department of Medical Social Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH; Division of Asthma Research, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University, Durham, NC
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- School of Nursing, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
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- Departments of Pediatrics, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, and Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle, WA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the MIND Institute, University of California, Davis, School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA
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- Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
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- Department of Epidemiology, Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine, Lebanon, NH
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Vermont Medical Center, Burlington, VT
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- Division of Public Health and Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, & Reproductive Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
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- Center for the Study of Children at Risk, Departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, Alpert Medical School of Brown University and Women and Infants Hospital, Providence, RI
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Knapp EA, Kress AM, Parker CB, Page GP, McArthur K, Gachigi KK, Alshawabkeh AN, Aschner JL, Bastain TM, Breton CV, Bendixsen CG, Brennan PA, Bush NR, Buss C, Camargo, Jr. CA, Catellier D, Cordero JF, Croen L, Dabelea D, Deoni S, D’Sa V, Duarte CS, Dunlop AL, Elliott AJ, Farzan SF, Ferrara A, Ganiban JM, Gern JE, Giardino AP, Towe-Goodman NR, Gold DR, Habre R, Hamra GB, Hartert T, Herbstman JB, Hertz-Picciotto I, Hipwell AE, Karagas MR, Karr CJ, Keenan K, Kerver JM, Koinis-Mitchell D, Lau B, Lester BM, Leve LD, Leventhal B, LeWinn KZ, Lewis J, Litonjua AA, Lyall K, Madan JC, McEvoy CT, McGrath M, Meeker JD, Miller RL, Morello-Frosch R, Neiderhiser JM, O’Connor TG, Oken E, O’Shea M, Paneth N, Porucznik CA, Sathyanarayana S, Schantz SL, Spindel ER, Stanford JB, Stroustrup A, Teitelbaum SL, Trasande L, Volk H, Wadhwa PD, Weiss ST, Woodruff TJ, Wright RJ, Zhao Q, Jacobson LP, Influences on Child Health Outcomes ,OBOPCFE. The Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO)-Wide Cohort. Am J Epidemiol 2023; 192:1249-1263. [PMID: 36963379 PMCID: PMC10403303 DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwad071] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2022] [Revised: 03/17/2023] [Accepted: 03/23/2023] [Indexed: 03/26/2023] Open
Abstract
The Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO)-Wide Cohort Study (EWC), a collaborative research design comprising 69 cohorts in 31 consortia, was funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 2016 to improve children's health in the United States. The EWC harmonizes extant data and collects new data using a standardized protocol, the ECHO-Wide Cohort Data Collection Protocol (EWCP). EWCP visits occur at least once per life stage, but the frequency and timing of the visits vary across cohorts. As of March 4, 2022, the EWC cohorts contributed data from 60,553 children and consented 29,622 children for new EWCP data and biospecimen collection. The median (interquartile range) age of EWCP-enrolled children was 7.5 years (3.7-11.1). Surveys, interviews, standardized examinations, laboratory analyses, and medical record abstraction are used to obtain information in 5 main outcome areas: pre-, peri-, and postnatal outcomes; neurodevelopment; obesity; airways; and positive health. Exposures include factors at the level of place (e.g., air pollution, neighborhood socioeconomic status), family (e.g., parental mental health), and individuals (e.g., diet, genomics).
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- Emily A Knapp
- Correspondence to Dr. Emily Knapp, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 700 E. Pratt Street, Suite 1000, Baltimore, Maryland 21202 (e-mail: )
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Searcy JA, Cioffi CC, Tavalire HF, Budd EL, Cresko WA, DeGarmo DS, Leve LD. Reaching Latinx Communities with Algorithmic Optimization for SARS-CoV-2 Testing Locations. Prev Sci 2023; 24:1249-1260. [PMID: 36622480 PMCID: PMC9827438 DOI: 10.1007/s11121-022-01478-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/14/2022] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected communities of color, including Latinx communities. Oregon Saludable: Juntos Podemos (OSJP) is a randomized clinical trial aimed at reducing this disparity by both increasing access to testing for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, for Oregon Latinx community members and studying the effectiveness of health and behavioral health interventions on turnout and health outcomes. OSJP established SARS-CoV-2 testing events at sites across Oregon. A critical early question was how to locate these sites to best serve Latinx community members. To propose sites in each participating county, we implemented an algorithmic approach solving a facilities location problem. This algorithm was based on minimizing driving time from Latinx population centers to SARS-CoV-2 testing locations. OSJP staff presented these proposed testing locations to community partners as a starting place for identifying final testing sites. Due to differences in geography, population distributions, and potential site accessibility, the study sites exhibited variation in how well the algorithmic optimization objectives could be satisfied. From this variation, we inferred the effects of the drive time optimization metric on the likelihood of Latinx community members utilizing SARS-CoV-2 testing services. After controlling for potential confounders, we found that minimizing the drive time optimization metric was strongly correlated with increased turnout among Latinx community members. This paper presents the algorithm and data sources used for site proposals and discusses challenges and opportunities for community-based health promotion research when translating algorithm proposals into action across a range of health outcomes.
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- Jacob A Searcy
- Presidential Initiative in Data Science, University of Oregon, 203 Pacific Hall, Eugene, OR, 97403, USA.
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- Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA
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- Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA
- Department of Counseling Psychology and Human Services, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA
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- Presidential Initiative in Data Science, University of Oregon, 203 Pacific Hall, Eugene, OR, 97403, USA
- Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA
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- Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA
- Department of Counseling Psychology and Human Services, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA
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- Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA
- Department of Counseling Psychology and Human Services, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA
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Mallott EK, Sitarik AR, Leve LD, Cioffi C, Camargo CA, Hasegawa K, Bordenstein SR. Human microbiome variation associated with race and ethnicity emerges as early as 3 months of age. PLoS Biol 2023; 21:e3002230. [PMID: 37590208 PMCID: PMC10434942 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002230] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2022] [Accepted: 07/03/2023] [Indexed: 08/19/2023] Open
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Human microbiome variation is linked to the incidence, prevalence, and mortality of many diseases and associates with race and ethnicity in the United States. However, the age at which microbiome variability emerges between these groups remains a central gap in knowledge. Here, we identify that gut microbiome variation associated with race and ethnicity arises after 3 months of age and persists through childhood. One-third of the bacterial taxa that vary across caregiver-identified racial categories in children are taxa reported to also vary between adults. Machine learning modeling of childhood microbiomes from 8 cohort studies (2,756 samples from 729 children) distinguishes racial and ethnic categories with 87% accuracy. Importantly, predictive genera are also among the top 30 most important taxa when childhood microbiomes are used to predict adult self-identified race and ethnicity. Our results highlight a critical developmental window at or shortly after 3 months of age when social and environmental factors drive race and ethnicity-associated microbiome variation and may contribute to adult health and health disparities.
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- Elizabeth K. Mallott
- Vanderbilt Microbiome Innovation Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
- Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
- Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, Henry Ford Health, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America
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- Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
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- Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Vanderbilt Microbiome Innovation Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
- Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
- Vanderbilt Institute for Infection, Immunology, and Inflammation, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
- Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
- Departments of Biology and Entomology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- The One Health Microbiome Center, Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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Anaya B, Neiderhiser JM, Pérez-Edgar K, Leve LD, Ganiban JM, Reiss D, Natsuaki MN, Shaw DS. Developmental trajectories of behavioral inhibition from infancy to age seven: The role of genetic and environmental risk for psychopathology. Child Dev 2023. [PMID: 37017208 DOI: 10.1111/cdev.13924] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/06/2023]
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The present study leveraged data from a longitudinal adoption study of 361 families recruited between 2003 and 2010 in the United States. We investigated how psychopathology symptoms in birth parents (BP; Mage = 24.1 years; 50.5-62.9% completed high school) and adoptive parents (AP; Mage = 37.8 years; 80.9% completed college; 94% mother-father couples) influenced children's behavioral inhibition (BI) trajectories. We used latent growth models of observed BI at 18 and 27 months, and 4.5 and 7 years in a sample of adopted children (Female = 42%, White = 57%, Black = 11%, Multi-racial = 21%, Latinx = 9%). BI generally decreased over time, yet there was substantial variability in these trajectories. Neither BP nor AP psychopathology symptoms independently predicted systematic differences in BI trajectories. Instead, we found that AP internalizing symptoms moderated the effects of BP psychopathology on trajectories of BI, indicating a gene by environment interaction.
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- Berenice Anaya
- The Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania, USA
- Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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- George Washington University, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
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- Yale Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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- University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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Hofheimer JA, McGrath M, Musci R, Wu G, Polk S, Blackwell CK, Stroustrup A, Annett RD, Aschner J, Carter BS, Check J, Conradt E, Croen LA, Dunlop AL, Elliott AJ, Law A, Leve LD, Neiderhiser JM, O’Shea TM, Salisbury AL, Sathyanarayana S, Singh R, Smith LM, Aguiar A, Angal J, Carliner H, McEvoy C, Ondersma SJ, Lester B. Assessment of Psychosocial and Neonatal Risk Factors for Trajectories of Behavioral Dysregulation Among Young Children From 18 to 72 Months of Age. JAMA Netw Open 2023; 6:e2310059. [PMID: 37099294 PMCID: PMC10134008 DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.10059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2023] [Accepted: 03/10/2023] [Indexed: 04/27/2023] Open
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Importance Emotional and behavioral dysregulation during early childhood are associated with severe psychiatric, behavioral, and cognitive disorders through adulthood. Identifying the earliest antecedents of persisting emotional and behavioral dysregulation can inform risk detection practices and targeted interventions to promote adaptive developmental trajectories among at-risk children. Objective To characterize children's emotional and behavioral regulation trajectories and examine risk factors associated with persisting dysregulation across early childhood. Design, Setting, and Participants This cohort study examined data from 20 United States cohorts participating in Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes, which included 3934 mother-child pairs (singleton births) from 1990 to 2019. Statistical analysis was performed from January to August 2022. Exposures Standardized self-reports and medical data ascertained maternal, child, and environmental characteristics, including prenatal substance exposures, preterm birth, and multiple psychosocial adversities. Main Outcomes and Measures Child Behavior Checklist caregiver reports at 18 to 72 months of age, with Dysregulation Profile (CBCL-DP = sum of anxiety/depression, attention, and aggression). Results The sample included 3934 mother-child pairs studied at 18 to 72 months. Among the mothers, 718 (18.7%) were Hispanic, 275 (7.2%) were non-Hispanic Asian, 1220 (31.8%) were non-Hispanic Black, 1412 (36.9%) were non-Hispanic White; 3501 (89.7%) were at least 21 years of age at delivery. Among the children, 2093 (53.2%) were male, 1178 of 2143 with Psychosocial Adversity Index [PAI] data (55.0%) experienced multiple psychosocial adversities, 1148 (29.2%) were exposed prenatally to at least 1 psychoactive substance, and 3066 (80.2%) were term-born (≥37 weeks' gestation). Growth mixture modeling characterized a 3-class CBCL-DP trajectory model: high and increasing (2.3% [n = 89]), borderline and stable (12.3% [n = 479]), and low and decreasing (85.6% [n = 3366]). Children in high and borderline dysregulation trajectories had more prevalent maternal psychological challenges (29.4%-50.0%). Multinomial logistic regression analyses indicated that children born preterm were more likely to be in the high dysregulation trajectory (adjusted odds ratio [aOR], 2.76; 95% CI, 2.08-3.65; P < .001) or borderline dysregulation trajectory (aOR, 1.36; 95% CI, 1.06-1.76; P = .02) vs low dysregulation trajectory. High vs low dysregulation trajectories were less prevalent for girls compared with boys (aOR, 0.60; 95% CI, 0.36-1.01; P = .05) and children with lower PAI (aOR, 1.94; 95% CI, 1.51-2.49; P < .001). Combined increases in PAI and prenatal substance exposures were associated with increased odds of high vs borderline dysregulation (aOR, 1.28; 95% CI, 1.08-1.53; P = .006) and decreased odds of low vs high dysregulation (aOR, 0.77; 95% CI, 0.64-0.92; P = .005). Conclusions and Relevance In this cohort study of behavioral dysregulation trajectories, associations were found with early risk factors. These findings may inform screening and diagnostic practices for addressing observed precursors of persisting dysregulation as they emerge among at-risk children.
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- Julie A. Hofheimer
- Department of Pediatrics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
- Department of Health Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
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- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Department of Medical Social Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
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- Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, Cohen Children’s Medical Center at Northwell Health, New Hyde Park, New York
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque
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- Department of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York
- Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, Nutley, New Jersey
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Children’s Mercy Kansas City, Kansas City
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- Department of Pediatrics, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
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- Department of Psychiatry, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
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- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, California
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- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia
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- Avera Research Institute, Sioux Falls, South Dakota
- Department of Pediatrics, University of South Dakota School of Medicine, Sioux Falls
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- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon, Eugene
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle
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- Department of Pediatrics, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Pediatrics, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California
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- Department of Comparative Biosciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign
- Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign
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- Avera Research Institute, Sioux Falls, South Dakota
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- Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York
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- Department of Pediatrics, Oregon Health & Science University, Doernbecher Children’s Hospital, Portland
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- Division of Public Health, Michigan State University, East Lansing
- Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing
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- Brown Center for the Study of Children at Risk, Women & Infants Hospital, Brown University Alpert School of Medicine, Providence
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Moog NK, Cummings PD, Jackson KL, Aschner JL, Barrett ES, Bastain TM, Blackwell CK, Bosquet Enlow M, Breton CV, Bush NR, Deoni SCL, Duarte CS, Ferrara A, Grant TL, Hipwell AE, Jones K, Leve LD, Lovinsky-Desir S, Miller RK, Monk C, Oken E, Posner J, Schmidt RJ, Wright RJ, Entringer S, Simhan HN, Wadhwa PD, O'Connor TG, Musci RJ, Buss C. Intergenerational transmission of the effects of maternal exposure to childhood maltreatment in the USA: a retrospective cohort study. Lancet Public Health 2023; 8:e226-e237. [PMID: 36841563 PMCID: PMC9982823 DOI: 10.1016/s2468-2667(23)00025-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2022] [Revised: 01/12/2023] [Accepted: 01/16/2023] [Indexed: 02/25/2023]
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BACKGROUND Childhood maltreatment is associated with adverse health outcomes and this risk can be transmitted to the next generation. We aimed to investigate the association between exposure to maternal childhood maltreatment and common childhood physical and mental health problems, neurodevelopmental disorders, and related comorbidity patterns in offspring. METHODS We conducted a retrospective cohort study using data from the Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program, which was launched to investigate the influence of early life exposures on child health and development in 69 cohorts across the USA. Eligible mother-child dyads were those with available data on maternal childhood maltreatment exposure and at least one child health outcome measure (autism spectrum disorder, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder [ADHD], internalising problems, obesity, allergy, and asthma diagnoses). Maternal history of childhood maltreatment was obtained retrospectively from the Adverse Childhood Experiences or Life Stressor Checklist questionnaires. We derived the prevalence of the specified child health outcome measures in offspring across childhood and adolescence by harmonising caregiver reports and other relevant sources (such as medical records) across cohorts. Child internalising symptoms were assessed using the Child Behavior Checklist. Associations between maternal childhood maltreatment and childhood health outcomes were measured using a series of mixed-effects logistic regression models. Covariates included child sex (male or female), race, and ethnicity; maternal and paternal age; maternal education; combined annual household income; maternal diagnosis of depression, asthma, ADHD, allergy, or autism spectrum disorder; and maternal obesity. Two latent class analyses were conducted: to characterise patterns of comorbidity of child health outcomes; and to characterise patterns of co-occurrence of childhood maltreatment subtypes. We then investigated the association between latent class membership and maternal childhood maltreatment and child health outcomes, respectively. FINDINGS Our sample included 4337 mother-child dyads from 21 longitudinal cohorts (with data collection initiated between 1999 and 2016). Of 3954 mothers in the study, 1742 (44%) had experienced exposure to abuse or neglect during their childhood. After adjustment for confounding, mothers who experienced childhood maltreatment were more likely to have children with internalising problems in the clinical range (odds ratio [OR] 2·70 [95% CI 1·95-3·72], p<0·0001), autism spectrum disorder (1·70 [1·13-2·55], p=0·01), ADHD (2·09 [1·63-2·67], p<0·0001), and asthma (1·54 [1·34-1·77], p<0·0001). In female offspring, maternal childhood maltreatment was associated with a higher prevalence of obesity (1·69 [1·17-2·44], p=0·005). Children of mothers exposed to childhood maltreatment were more likely to exhibit a diagnostic pattern characterised by higher risk for multimorbidity. Exposure to multiple forms of maltreatment across all subtypes of maternal childhood maltreatment was associated with the highest risk increases for most offspring health outcomes, suggesting a dose-response relationship. INTERPRETATION Our findings suggest that maternal childhood maltreatment experiences can be a risk factor for disease susceptibility in offspring across a variety of outcomes and emphasise the need for policies focusing on breaking the intergenerational transmission of adversity. FUNDING Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes Program, Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health.
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- Nora K Moog
- Institute of Medical Psychology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Medical Social Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Medical Social Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, Nutley, NJ, USA; Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Rutgers School of Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute, Piscataway, NJ, USA
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Medical Social Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Department of Pediatrics, Division of Developmental Medicine, Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Advanced Baby Imaging Lab, School of Engineering, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA; Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Public Health Sciences and the MIND Institute, School of Medicine, University of California Davis, Sacramento, CA, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Institute for Exposomic Research, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Institute of Medical Psychology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, Orange, CA, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, Magee Women's Hospital, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, Orange, CA, USA; Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California, Irvine, Orange, CA, USA; Department of Epidemiology, University of California, Irvine, Orange, CA, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA; Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience, School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA
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- Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Institute of Medical Psychology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, Orange, CA, USA.
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Nozadi SS, Li X, Kong X, Rennie B, Kanda D, MacKenzie D, Luo L, Posner J, Blackwell CK, Croen LA, Ferrara A, O’Connor TG, Zimmerman E, Ghassabian A, Leve LD, Elliott AJ, Schmidt RJ, Sprowles JLN, Lewis JL. Effects of COVID-19 Financial and Social Hardships on Infants' and Toddlers' Development in the ECHO Program. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2023; 20:1013. [PMID: 36673770 PMCID: PMC9858743 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph20021013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2022] [Revised: 12/19/2022] [Accepted: 12/27/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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BACKGROUND The financial hardships and social isolation experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic have been found to adversely affect children's developmental outcomes. While many studies thus far have focused on school-aged children and the pandemic-related impacts on their academic skills and behavior problems, relatively less is known about pandemic hardships and associations with children's development during their early years. Using a racially and economically diverse sample, we examined whether hardships experienced during the pandemic were associated with children's development with a particular focus on communication and socioemotional development. METHODS Participants from eight cohorts of the Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes program provided data on pandemic-related financial and social hardships as well as child developmental outcomes. Financial hardship was defined as at least one parent experiencing job loss or change, and social hardship was defined as families' quarantining from household members or extended family and friends. The development of children under 4 was assessed longitudinally, before and during the pandemic (N = 684), using the Ages and Stages Questionnaire (ASQ). The Generalized Estimating Equations, which accounted for within-child correlation, were used for analysis. RESULTS Families from minority backgrounds and low socioeconomic status disproportionately experienced pandemic-related hardships. Male children had higher odds of experiencing negative changes in communication and personal social skills from pre- to during-pandemic visits (ORs ranged between 2.24 and 3.03 in analysis with binary ASQ outcomes and ranged from -0.34-0.36 in analyses with ASQ z-scores, ps = 0.000). Pandemic-related hardships in the social and financial areas did not explain within-individual changes in children's developmental outcomes. CONCLUSION Negative developmental changes from pre- to during-pandemic were found in boys, yet we did not find any associations between increased experience of pandemic-related hardships and children's development. E how pandemic hardships affect development using a larger sample size and with longer follow-up is warranted.
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- Sara S. Nozadi
- Community Environmental Health Program, College of Pharmacy, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, NM 87106, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
- Wilmer Eye Institute, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21087, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Center for Development and Disability, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, NM 87107, USA
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- Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87106, USA
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- Community Environmental Health Program, College of Pharmacy, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, NM 87106, USA
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- Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87106, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC 27705, USA
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- Department of Medical Social Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
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- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
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- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
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- School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
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- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorder, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA
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- Department of Counseling Psychology, College of Education, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Sanford School of Medicine, University of South Dakota, Sioux Falls, SD 57105, USA
- Avera Research Institute, Sioux Falls, SD 57108, USA
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, School of Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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- Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
- International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health, Durham, NC 27713, USA
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- Community Environmental Health Program, College of Pharmacy, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, NM 87106, USA
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Nanishi M, Chandran A, Li X, Stanford JB, Alshawabkeh AN, Aschner JL, Dabelea D, Dunlop AL, Elliott AJ, Gern JE, Hartert T, Herbstman J, Hershey GKK, Hipwell AE, Karagas MR, Karr CJ, Leve LD, Litonjua AA, McEvoy CT, Miller RL, Oken E, O’Shea TM, Paneth N, Weiss ST, Wright RO, Wright RJ, Carroll KN, Zhang X, Zhao Q, Zoratti E, Camargo CA, Hasegawa K. Association of Severe Bronchiolitis during Infancy with Childhood Asthma Development: An Analysis of the ECHO Consortium. Biomedicines 2022; 11:23. [PMID: 36672531 PMCID: PMC9855570 DOI: 10.3390/biomedicines11010023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2022] [Accepted: 12/13/2022] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Objective: Many studies have shown that severe (hospitalized) bronchiolitis during infancy is a risk factor for developing childhood asthma. However, the population subgroups at the highest risk remain unclear. Using large nationwide pediatric cohort data, namely the NIH Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program, we aimed to quantify the longitudinal relationship of bronchiolitis hospitalization during infancy with asthma in a generalizable dataset and to examine potential heterogeneity in terms of major demographics and clinical factors. Methods: We analyzed data from infants (age <12 months) enrolled in one of the 53 prospective cohort studies in the ECHO Program during 2001−2021. The exposure was bronchiolitis hospitalization during infancy. The outcome was a diagnosis of asthma by a physician by age 12 years. We examined their longitudinal association and determined the potential effect modifications of major demographic factors. Results: The analytic cohort consisted of 11,762 infants, 10% of whom had bronchiolitis hospitalization. Overall, 15% subsequently developed asthma. In the Cox proportional hazards model adjusting for 10 patient-level factors, compared with the no-bronchiolitis hospitalization group, the bronchiolitis hospitalization group had a significantly higher rate of asthma (14% vs. 24%, HR = 2.77, 95%CI = 2.24−3.43, p < 0.001). There was significant heterogeneity by race and ethnicity (Pinteraction = 0.02). The magnitude of the association was greater in non-Hispanic White (HR = 3.77, 95%CI = 2.74−5.18, p < 0.001) and non-Hispanic Black (HR = 2.39, 95%CI = 1.60−3.56; p < 0.001) infants, compared with Hispanic infants (HR = 1.51, 95%CI = 0.77−2.95, p = 0.23). Conclusions: According to the nationwide cohort data, infants hospitalized with bronchiolitis are at a higher risk for asthma, with quantitative heterogeneity in different racial and ethnic groups.
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- Makiko Nanishi
- Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
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- Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Departments of Pediatrics, Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
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- Lifecourse Epidemiology of Adiposity and Diabetes (LEAD) Center, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
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- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30307, USA
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- Avera Research Institute & Department of Pediatrics, University of South Dakota School of Medicine, Sioux Falls, SD 57069, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI 53726, USA
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- Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
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- Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA
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- Division of Asthma Research, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03756, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, USA
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- Division of Pediatric Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR 97239, USA
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- Division of Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Division of Chronic Disease Research Across the Lifecourse, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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- Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27559, USA
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- Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Pediatrics and Human Development, Michigan State University, College of Human Medicine, East Lansing, MI 49503, USA
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38163, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Henry Ford Health, Detroit, MI 48202, USA
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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OBJECTIVE The prevention of delinquency can have long-term benefits for both the individual and society. Previous work has demonstrated positive effects of Treatment Foster Care Oregon (TFCO) on reducing delinquency across a 2-year period for adolescent females involved in the juvenile justice system. The present study examined whether the effects of TFCO are present across a 10-year period, and whether criminal offenses accrued in the juvenile justice system mediate the association between intervention condition and cumulative criminal offenses through emerging adulthood. METHOD The sample included 166 women (68% non-Hispanic White) who had been court mandated to out-of-home care as adolescents, randomly assigned to one of two interventions, and followed for an average of 10 years. Juvenile (< 18 years of age) and adult criminal records data were collected and coded for offense severity. RESULTS Analyses revealed a significant effect of the TFCO intervention on cumulative criminal offense charge severity across the 10-year follow-up period (β = -.15, p < .05). This effect was mediated by offense charges that occurred after the baseline assessment and prior to Age 18, as shown through a significant indirect effect, β = -.09, p < .05, suggesting the importance of reductions in juvenile delinquency on later criminal offending. CONCLUSIONS Intensive out-of-home interventions that reduce juvenile offenses for youth with chronic delinquency may have sustained effects on adult criminality. Implications for prevention programs for female adolescents are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).
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- Leslie D Leve
- Department of Counseling Psychology and Human Services, Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon
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- Department of Counseling Psychology and Human Services, Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon
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- Department of Counseling Psychology and Human Services, Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon
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Ramos AM, Shewark EA, Reiss D, Leve LD, Natsuaki MN, Shaw DS, Ganiban JM, Neiderhiser JM. Family interactions in toddlerhood influence social competence in preschool age: Accounting for genetic and prenatal influences. Front Psychol 2022; 13:975086. [PMID: 36518964 PMCID: PMC9742492 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.975086] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2022] [Accepted: 10/17/2022] [Indexed: 12/20/2023] Open
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Identification of early promotive and risk factors for social competence is important for fostering children's successful social development; particularly given social competence is essential for children's later academic and psychological well-being. While research suggests that the early parent-child relationship, genetics, and prenatal influences are associated with social competence, there is less research considering how these factors may operate together to shape children's social competence in early childhood. Using a genetically informed sample from the Early Growth and Development Study (N = 561), we examined multiple levels of influence (i.e., genetic, prenatal, parenting, and child characteristics) on children's social competence at 4.5 years old. Results from structural equation models showed adoptive mother overreactivity at 18 months was positively associated with child dysregulation at 27 months, which, in turn, was associated with lower levels of social competence at 4.5 years. Also, child reactivity at 18 months was independently associated with higher levels of adoptive mother overreactivity at 27 months, which, in turn, was associated with lower levels of social competence at 4.5 years. Finally, we found an evocative effect on adoptive fathers' overreactivity at 18 months such that prenatal birth mother distress was negatively associated with adoptive fathers' overreactivity at 18 months. Overall, this study found evidence for genetic influences, and bidirectional associations between parent and child in toddlerhood that are related to lower levels of social competence when children were 4.5 years old. We also found that the prenatal environment was associated with parenting, but not with child behavior directly. This study's ability to simultaneously examine multiple domains of influence helps provide a more comprehensive picture of important mechanisms and developmental periods for children's early social competence.
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- Amanda M. Ramos
- Department of Epidemiology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
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- Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States
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- Child Study Center, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States
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- Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States
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- Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States
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- Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States
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- Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States
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Anda SD, Budd EL, Halvorson S, Mauricio AM, McWhirter EH, Cioffi CC, García JIR, Cresko WA, Leve LD, DeGarmo DS. Effects of a Health Education Intervention for COVID-19 Prevention in Latinx Communities: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial. Am J Public Health 2022; 112:S923-S927. [PMID: 36446063 PMCID: PMC9707712 DOI: 10.2105/ajph.2022.307129] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 09/13/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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To promote COVID-19 preventive attitudes and behaviors among Latinx individuals, researchers and community partners implemented a culturally tailored health education intervention across 12 Oregon counties from February 2021 through April 2022. We did not identify any significant intervention effects on preventive attitudes and behaviors but did observe significant decreases in psychological distress. Although Latinx individuals' preventive attitudes and behaviors were not associated with the health education intervention, findings suggest the intervention has value in promoting their well-being (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT04793464). (Am J Public Health. 2022;112(S9):S923-S927. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2022.307129).
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- Stephanie De Anda
- Stephanie De Anda is with the Department of Special Education and Clinical Sciences, University of Oregon, Eugene. Elizabeth L. Budd is with the Department of Counseling Psychology and Human Services, University of Oregon. Sven Halvorson, Anne Marie Mauricio, Camille C. Cioffi, Jorge I. Ramírez García, and David S. DeGarmo are with the Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon. Ellen Hawley McWhirter and Leslie D. Leve are with the Department of Counseling Psychology and Human Services, University of Oregon. William A. Cresko is with the Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Oregon
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- Stephanie De Anda is with the Department of Special Education and Clinical Sciences, University of Oregon, Eugene. Elizabeth L. Budd is with the Department of Counseling Psychology and Human Services, University of Oregon. Sven Halvorson, Anne Marie Mauricio, Camille C. Cioffi, Jorge I. Ramírez García, and David S. DeGarmo are with the Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon. Ellen Hawley McWhirter and Leslie D. Leve are with the Department of Counseling Psychology and Human Services, University of Oregon. William A. Cresko is with the Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Oregon
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- Stephanie De Anda is with the Department of Special Education and Clinical Sciences, University of Oregon, Eugene. Elizabeth L. Budd is with the Department of Counseling Psychology and Human Services, University of Oregon. Sven Halvorson, Anne Marie Mauricio, Camille C. Cioffi, Jorge I. Ramírez García, and David S. DeGarmo are with the Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon. Ellen Hawley McWhirter and Leslie D. Leve are with the Department of Counseling Psychology and Human Services, University of Oregon. William A. Cresko is with the Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Oregon
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- Stephanie De Anda is with the Department of Special Education and Clinical Sciences, University of Oregon, Eugene. Elizabeth L. Budd is with the Department of Counseling Psychology and Human Services, University of Oregon. Sven Halvorson, Anne Marie Mauricio, Camille C. Cioffi, Jorge I. Ramírez García, and David S. DeGarmo are with the Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon. Ellen Hawley McWhirter and Leslie D. Leve are with the Department of Counseling Psychology and Human Services, University of Oregon. William A. Cresko is with the Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Oregon
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- Stephanie De Anda is with the Department of Special Education and Clinical Sciences, University of Oregon, Eugene. Elizabeth L. Budd is with the Department of Counseling Psychology and Human Services, University of Oregon. Sven Halvorson, Anne Marie Mauricio, Camille C. Cioffi, Jorge I. Ramírez García, and David S. DeGarmo are with the Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon. Ellen Hawley McWhirter and Leslie D. Leve are with the Department of Counseling Psychology and Human Services, University of Oregon. William A. Cresko is with the Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Oregon
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- Stephanie De Anda is with the Department of Special Education and Clinical Sciences, University of Oregon, Eugene. Elizabeth L. Budd is with the Department of Counseling Psychology and Human Services, University of Oregon. Sven Halvorson, Anne Marie Mauricio, Camille C. Cioffi, Jorge I. Ramírez García, and David S. DeGarmo are with the Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon. Ellen Hawley McWhirter and Leslie D. Leve are with the Department of Counseling Psychology and Human Services, University of Oregon. William A. Cresko is with the Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Oregon
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- Stephanie De Anda is with the Department of Special Education and Clinical Sciences, University of Oregon, Eugene. Elizabeth L. Budd is with the Department of Counseling Psychology and Human Services, University of Oregon. Sven Halvorson, Anne Marie Mauricio, Camille C. Cioffi, Jorge I. Ramírez García, and David S. DeGarmo are with the Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon. Ellen Hawley McWhirter and Leslie D. Leve are with the Department of Counseling Psychology and Human Services, University of Oregon. William A. Cresko is with the Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Oregon
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- Stephanie De Anda is with the Department of Special Education and Clinical Sciences, University of Oregon, Eugene. Elizabeth L. Budd is with the Department of Counseling Psychology and Human Services, University of Oregon. Sven Halvorson, Anne Marie Mauricio, Camille C. Cioffi, Jorge I. Ramírez García, and David S. DeGarmo are with the Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon. Ellen Hawley McWhirter and Leslie D. Leve are with the Department of Counseling Psychology and Human Services, University of Oregon. William A. Cresko is with the Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Oregon
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- Stephanie De Anda is with the Department of Special Education and Clinical Sciences, University of Oregon, Eugene. Elizabeth L. Budd is with the Department of Counseling Psychology and Human Services, University of Oregon. Sven Halvorson, Anne Marie Mauricio, Camille C. Cioffi, Jorge I. Ramírez García, and David S. DeGarmo are with the Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon. Ellen Hawley McWhirter and Leslie D. Leve are with the Department of Counseling Psychology and Human Services, University of Oregon. William A. Cresko is with the Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Oregon
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- Stephanie De Anda is with the Department of Special Education and Clinical Sciences, University of Oregon, Eugene. Elizabeth L. Budd is with the Department of Counseling Psychology and Human Services, University of Oregon. Sven Halvorson, Anne Marie Mauricio, Camille C. Cioffi, Jorge I. Ramírez García, and David S. DeGarmo are with the Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon. Ellen Hawley McWhirter and Leslie D. Leve are with the Department of Counseling Psychology and Human Services, University of Oregon. William A. Cresko is with the Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Oregon
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Leve LD, Harold GT, Neiderhiser JM, Natsuaki MN, Shaw DS, Ganiban JM, Reiss D. The Potential of Children's Rearing Environment to Overcome Genetic Propensity for Low Reading Achievement. Mind Brain Educ 2022; 16:352-359. [PMID: 36589264 PMCID: PMC9796096 DOI: 10.1111/mbe.12332] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2021] [Revised: 05/16/2022] [Accepted: 06/27/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Genetic studies show that children's reading achievement is in part genetically influenced, and intervention studies show that reading achievement can be increased by environmental interventions. However, correlational and mean-level analytic strategies are rarely integrated into achievement research, potentially leading to misinterpretation of results. The parent-offspring adoption design offers a novel opportunity to examine the independent and joint roles of genetic and rearing environmental contributions. The sample included 344 adopted children in first grade and their biological and adoptive parents. Results indicated that adoptees' reading scores were correlated with their biological parents' scores, but not with their adoptive parents' scores, suggesting genetic influences. In addition, examination of mean scores indicated that adoptees' scores were significantly greater than their biological parents' (p's < .001) for all subtests, suggesting promotive effects of the rearing environment. This pattern was present even when biological parents scored >1 standard deviation below the biological parent mean on achievement.
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- Department of Psychological and Brain SciencesGeorge Washington University
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Robertson OC, Marceau K, Duncan RJ, Shirtcliff EA, Leve LD, Shaw DS, Natsuaki M, Neiderhiser JM, Ganiban JM. Prenatal programming of developmental trajectories for obesity risk and early pubertal timing. Dev Psychol 2022; 58:1817-1831. [PMID: 35727305 PMCID: PMC9593554 DOI: 10.1037/dev0001405] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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The thrifty phenotype and fetal overnutrition hypotheses are two developmental hypotheses that originated from the developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD) perspective. The DOHaD posits that exposures experienced prenatally and early in life may influence health outcomes through altering form and function of internal organs related to metabolic processes. Obesity risk and early pubertal timing might be influenced by similar mechanisms. The thrifty phenotype hypothesis is primarily characterized by experiencing a deprivation of nutrients during gestation paired with an energy rich postnatal environment. The fetal overnutrition hypothesis says that obesity experienced prenatally will be associated with increased lifetime risk of obesity in the offspring. Both hypotheses were tested by examining developmental pathways from genetic and prenatal risk through early growth trajectories (birth to 7 years) to pubertal timing at age 11 years. Participants included 361 children adopted at birth (57% male; 57% non-Hispanic White, 11% Black, 9% Hispanic; adoptive family income Mdn = $70,000-$100,000, birth family income Mdn = < $15,000). Associations between boys' childhood body mass index (BMI) and pubertal timing were confounded by genetics, prenatal risk, and early growth. The thrifty phenotype hypothesis was partially supported for boys' childhood BMI (at ages 4 to 7 years). Both hypotheses were partially supported for girls' childhood BMI but not pubertal timing. A novel Gene × Prenatal Risk interaction showed that genetic risk predicted girls' childhood BMI most strongly at adequate compared with at excessive levels of gestational weight gain. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).
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- Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Purdue University
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- Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Purdue University
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- Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside
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Budd EL, McWhirter EH, De Anda S, Mauricio AM, Mueller MV, Cioffi CC, Nash A, Van Brocklin K, Yarris K, Jackson A, Terral H, García JIR, Cresko WA, DeGarmo DS, Leve LD. Development and design of a culturally tailored intervention to address COVID-19 disparities among Oregon's Latinx communities: A community case study. Front Public Health 2022; 10:962862. [PMID: 36211681 PMCID: PMC9541743 DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.962862] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2022] [Accepted: 09/05/2022] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Background Latinx communities are disproportionately affected by COVID-19 compared with non-Latinx White communities in Oregon and much of the United States. The COVID-19 pandemic presents a critical and urgent need to reach Latinx communities with innovative, culturally tailored outreach and health promotion interventions to reduce viral transmission and address disparities. The aims of this case study are to (1) outline the collaborative development of a culturally and trauma-informed COVID-19 preventive intervention for Latinx communities; (2) describe essential intervention elements; and (3) summarize strengths and lessons learned for future applications. Methods Between June 2020 and January 2021, a multidisciplinary team of researchers and Latinx-serving partners engaged in the following intervention development activities: a scientific literature review, a survey of 67 Latinx residents attending public testing events, interviews with 13 leaders of community-based organizations serving Latinx residents, and bi-weekly consultations with the project's Public Health and Community Services Team and a regional Community and Scientific Advisory Board. After launching the intervention in the field in February 2021, bi-weekly meetings with interventionists continuously informed minor iterative refinements through present day. Results The resulting intervention, Promotores de Salud, includes outreach and brief health education. Bilingual, trauma-informed trainings and materials reflect the lived experiences, cultural values, needs, and concerns of Latinx communities. Interventionists (21 Promotores) were Latinx residents from nine Oregon counties where the intervention was delivered. Conclusions Sharing development and intervention details with public health researchers and practitioners facilitates intervention uptake and replication to optimize the public health effect in Oregon's Latinx communities and beyond.
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- Elizabeth L. Budd
- Department of Counseling Psychology and Human Services, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States,Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States,*Correspondence: Elizabeth L. Budd
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- Department of Counseling Psychology and Human Services, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States
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- Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States,Department of Special Education and Clinical Sciences, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States
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- Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States
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- Department of Counseling Psychology and Human Services, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States,Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States
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- Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States
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- Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States
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- Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States
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- Department of Global Studies, Center for Global Health, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States
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- Department of Counseling Psychology and Human Services, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States
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- Department of Counseling Psychology and Human Services, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States,Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States
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- Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States,Presidential Initiative in Data Science, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States
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- Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States
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- Department of Counseling Psychology and Human Services, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States,Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States
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Leve LD, Anderson D, Harold GT, Neiderhiser JM, Natsuaki MN, Shaw DS, Ganiban JM, Reiss D. Developmental profiles of child behavior problems from 18 months to 8 years: The protective effects of structured parenting vary by genetic risk. Dev Psychopathol 2022; 34:1-15. [PMID: 35929354 PMCID: PMC9899296 DOI: 10.1017/s0954579422000839] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Some children are more affected by specific family environments than others, as a function of differences in their genetic make-up. However, longitudinal studies of genetic moderation of parenting effects during early childhood have not been conducted. We examined developmental profiles of child behavior problems between 18 months and age 8 in a longitudinal parent-offspring sample of 361 adopted children. In toddlerhood (18 months), observed structured parenting indexed parental guidance in service of task goals. Biological parent psychopathology served as an index of genetic influences on children's behavior problems. Four profiles of child behavior problems were identified: low stable (11%), average stable (50%), higher stable (29%), and high increasing (11%). A multinominal logistic regression analysis indicated a genetically moderated effect of structured parenting, such that for children whose biological mother had higher psychopathology, the odds of the child being in the low stable group increased as structured parenting increased. Conversely, for children whose biological mother had lower psychopathology, the odds of being in the low stable group was reduced when structured parenting increased. Results suggest that increasing structured parenting is an effective strategy for children at higher genetic risk for psychopathology, but may be detrimental for those at lower genetic risk.
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- Leslie D. Leve
- Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA
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- Behavioral Research and Teaching, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA
- Always Be Learning, Inc, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA
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- Child Study Center, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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Liu C, Moore GA, Roben CKP, Ganiban JM, Leve LD, Shaw DS, Natsuaki MN, Reiss D, Neiderhiser JM. Examining Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) constructs for anger expression and regulation in toddlers. J Psychopathol Clin Sci 2022; 131:588-597. [PMID: 35901390 PMCID: PMC9439578 DOI: 10.1037/abn0000658] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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The present study is focused on anger expression and regulation within the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) construct of Frustrative Nonreward. Although previous studies have examined associations between child anger regulation and expression, these studies do not directly address the dynamic processes involved in Frustrative Nonreward using microlongitudinal methods. The current study used data from 561 adopted children, their adoptive parents, and birth parents and aimed to address gaps in the literature by examining: (a) temporal associations between anger expression during a frustrating situation, and behaviors thought to regulate emotions (e.g., attempt-to-escape, support-seeking, distraction, and focus-on-restraint) on a microlongitudinal scale during an arm restraint task assessed at 27 months; (b) birth parent externalizing problems and overreactive parenting by adoptive parents as predictors of child anger expression and moderators of the moment-to-moment associations estimated in Step 1; and (c) longitudinal associations (linear vs. quadratic) between anger expressions and externalizing behaviors at 4.5 years. Findings indicated that children's attempt-to-escape and support-seeking predicted an increase in anger expression in the following 3-s interval, whereas distraction and focus-on-restraint were not associated with changes in anger expression. Furthermore, we found that birth parents' externalizing problems were significantly associated with child anger expression, suggesting heritable influences. Anger expression showed a U-shaped longitudinal association with paternal report of externalizing behaviors at 4.5 years. Taken together, the findings emphasize the significance of integrating microlongitudinal analysis approaches into the RDoC framework, helping to advance our understanding of dynamic processes underlying reactions to Frustrative Nonreward. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).
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- Chang Liu
- The Pennsylvania State University
- George Washington University
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DeGarmo DS, De Anda S, Cioffi CC, Tavalire HF, Searcy JA, Budd EL, Hawley McWhirter E, Mauricio AM, Halvorson S, Beck EA, Fernandes L, Currey MC, Ramírez García J, Cresko WA, Leve LD. Effectiveness of a COVID-19 Testing Outreach Intervention for Latinx Communities: A Cluster Randomized Trial. JAMA Netw Open 2022; 5:e2216796. [PMID: 35708690 PMCID: PMC9204550 DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.16796] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2022] [Accepted: 04/22/2022] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Importance Latinx individuals have been disproportionately affected during the COVID-19 pandemic caused by the spread of SARS-CoV-2. It is imperative to evaluate newly developed preventive interventions to assess their effect on COVID-19 health disparities. Objective To examine the effectiveness of a culturally tailored outreach intervention designed to increase SARS-CoV-2 testing rates among Latinx populations. Design, Setting, and Participants In this cluster randomized trial performed from February 1 to August 31, 2021, in community settings in 9 Oregon counties, 38 sites were randomized a priori (19 to the community health promoters intervention and 19 to outreach as usual wait-listed controls). Thirty-three sites were activated. A total of 394 SARS-CoV-2 testing events were held and 1851 diagnostic samples collected, of which 919 were from Latinx persons. Interventions A culturally informed outreach program was developed that made use of promotores de salud (community health promoters) to increase Latinx SARS-CoV-2 testing. Strategies addressed barriers by disseminating information on testing events in English and Spanish, mitigating misinformation, and increasing trust. Main Outcomes and Measures The primary outcomes were the count of sample tests from Latinx persons and the sampled proportion of the Latinx populace. Site-level covariates included census tract Latinx populace, nativity (number of US-born individuals per 100 population), median age, and income inequality. Time-varying covariates included number of new weekly SARS-CoV-2-positive cases and percentage of vaccine coverage at the county level. Results A total of 15 clusters (sites) were randomized to the control group and 18 to the community health promoters group. A total of 1851 test samples were collected, of which 995 (53.8%) were from female participants and 919 (49.6%) were from Latinx individuals. The intervention tested 3.84 (95% CI, 2.47-5.97) times more Latinx individuals per event than controls (incident rate ratio, 0.79; 95% CI, 0.46-1.34; Cohen d = 0.74; P < .001). The intervention was associated with a 0.28 increase in the proportion of Latinx populace being tested compared with control sites for the dependent variable scaled as the proportion of the Latinx populace ×100, or a 0.003 proportion of the raw populace count. The use of a standardized scaling of the proportion of Latinx individuals showed that the relative percentage increase was 0.53 (95% CI, 0.21-0.86) in the intervention sites compared with controls, representing a medium effect size. Conclusions and Relevance To our knowledge, this was the first randomized evaluation of an outreach intervention designed to increase SARS-CoV-2 testing among Latinx populations. Findings could be used to implement strategies to reduce other health disparities experienced by these groups. Trial Registration ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT04793464.
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- David S. DeGarmo
- Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon, Eugene
- Department of Counseling Psychology and Human Services, University of Oregon, Eugene
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- Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon, Eugene
- Department of Special Education and Clinical Sciences, University of Oregon, Eugene
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- Presidential Initiative in Data Science, University of Oregon, Eugene
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- Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon, Eugene
- Department of Counseling Psychology and Human Services, University of Oregon, Eugene
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- Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon, Eugene
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- Presidential Initiative in Data Science, University of Oregon, Eugene
- Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Oregon, Eugene
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- Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Oregon, Eugene
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- Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon, Eugene
- Oregon Research Institute, Eugene
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- Presidential Initiative in Data Science, University of Oregon, Eugene
- Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Oregon, Eugene
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- Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon, Eugene
- Department of Counseling Psychology and Human Services, University of Oregon, Eugene
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Cioffi CC, Schweer-Collins ML, Leve LD. Pregnancy and miscarriage predict suicide attempts but not substance use among dual-systems involved female adolescents. Child Youth Serv Rev 2022; 137:106494. [PMID: 37089705 PMCID: PMC10118061 DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2022.106494] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Background To examine the associations between adolescent pregnancy and pregnancy outcomes on substance use and suicide attempts in a sample who is at greater risk for substance use and suicide attempts - those who have been involved with the uvenile justice and child welfare systems. Methods Using a prospective, longitudinal design, we examined the role of adolescent pregnancy outcomes on risk for suicide attempts and substance use among a sample of 166 female adolescents with juvenile justice system and child welfare involvement. Results Of participants, 36% (n = 60) reported at least one adolescent pregnancy with a total of 109 pregnancies reported. Adolescent pregnancy was associated with an increase in later suicide attempts (aOR = 1.68, 95% CI 1.06-2.72). Miscarriage was associated with a 2-fold increase in the likelihood of later suicide attempts, (aOR = 2.12, 95% CI 1.10-4.12). No participants who reported induced abortion (n = 13) reported suicide attempts. Adolescent pregnancy, miscarriage, and abortion were not significantly associated with later substance use (Ps > 0.05). Conclusions Healthcare professionals should conduct routine screening for suicidality in the months following a miscarriage, offer education to caregivers about how to support youth who experience pregnancy loss, provide additional social supports and familiarize themselves with local and virtual behavioral health resources to prevent suicide attempts among female adolescents who are at high risk and experience miscarriage.
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- Camille C. Cioffi
- Corresponding author at: Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon, 1600 Millrace Drive, Suite 105, Eugene, OR 97403, United States. (C.C. Cioffi)
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Leve LD, Conradt E, Tanner-Smith EE. Editorial: Parenting in the Context of Opioid Use: Mechanisms, Prevention Solutions, and Policy Implications. Front Psychol 2022; 13:859257. [PMID: 35310258 PMCID: PMC8926143 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.859257] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2022] [Accepted: 02/07/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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- Leslie D Leve
- Counseling Psychology and Human Services Department, Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States
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- Departments of Psychology, Pediatrics, and OB/GYN, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
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- Counseling Psychology and Human Services Department, Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States
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Hertz‐Picciotto I, Korrick SA, Ladd‐Acosta C, Karagas MR, Lyall K, Schmidt RJ, Dunlop AL, Croen LA, Dabelea D, Daniels JL, Duarte CS, Fallin MD, Karr CJ, Lester B, Leve LD, Li Y, McGrath M, Ning X, Oken E, Sagiv SK, Sathyanaraya S, Tylavsky F, Volk HE, Wakschlag LS, Zhang M, O'Shea TM, Musci RJ. Maternal tobacco smoking and offspring autism spectrum disorder or traits in ECHO cohorts. Autism Res 2022; 15:551-569. [PMID: 35199959 PMCID: PMC9304219 DOI: 10.1002/aur.2665] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2021] [Revised: 12/16/2021] [Accepted: 12/16/2021] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Given inconsistent evidence on preconception or prenatal tobacco use and offspring autism spectrum disorder (ASD), this study assessed associations of maternal smoking with ASD and ASD-related traits. Among 72 cohorts in the Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes consortium, 11 had ASD diagnosis and prenatal tobaccosmoking (n = 8648). and 7 had Social Responsiveness Scale (SRS) scores of ASD traits (n = 2399). Cohorts had diagnoses alone (6), traits alone (2), or both (5). Diagnoses drew from parent/caregiver report, review of records, or standardized instruments. Regression models estimated smoking-related odds ratios (ORs) for diagnoses and standardized mean differences for SRS scores. Cohort-specific ORs were meta-analyzed. Overall, maternal smoking was unassociated with child ASD (adjusted OR, 1.08; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.72-1.61). However, heterogeneity across studies was strong: preterm cohorts showed reduced ASD risk for exposed children. After excluding preterm cohorts (biased by restrictions on causal intermediate and exposure opportunity) and small cohorts (very few ASD cases in either smoking category), the adjusted OR for ASD from maternal smoking was 1.44 (95% CI, 1.02-2.03). Children of smoking (versus non-smoking) mothers had more ASD traits (SRS T-score + 2.37 points, 95% CI, 0.73-4.01 points), with results homogeneous across cohorts. Maternal preconception/prenatal smoking was consistently associated with quantitative ASD traits and modestly associated with ASD diagnosis among sufficiently powered United States cohorts of non-preterm children. Limitations resulting from self-reported smoking and unmeasured confounders preclude definitive conclusions. Nevertheless, counseling on potential and known risks to the child from maternal smoking is warranted for pregnant women and pregnancy planners. LAY SUMMARY: Evidence on the association between maternal prenatal smoking and the child's risk for autism spectrum disorder has been conflicting, with some studies reporting harmful effects, and others finding reduced risks. Our analysis of children in the ECHO consortium found that maternal prenatal tobacco smoking is consistently associated with an increase in autism-related symptoms in the general population and modestly associated with elevated risk for a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder when looking at a combined analysis from multiple studies that each included both pre- and full-term births. However, this study is not proof of a causal connection. Future studies to clarify the role of smoking in autism-like behaviors or autism diagnoses should collect more reliable data on smoking and measure other exposures or lifestyle factors that might have confounded our results.
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- Irva Hertz‐Picciotto
- Department of Public Health Sciences and MIND InstituteUniversity of California, Davis School of MedicineDavisCaliforniaUSA
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's HospitalHarvard Medical SchoolBostonMassachusettsUSA
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- Department of EpidemiologyJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public HealthBaltimoreMarylandUSA
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- Department of EpidemiologyGeisel School of Medicine at DartmouthHannoverNew HampshireUSA
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- A.J. Drexel Autism InstituteDrexel UniversityPhiladelphiaPennsylvaniaUSA
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- Department of Public Health Sciences and MIND InstituteUniversity of California, Davis School of MedicineDavisCaliforniaUSA
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- Department of Gynecology & ObstetricsEmory University School of MedicineAtlantaGeorgiaUSA
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- Division of ResearchKaiser PermanenteOaklandCaliforniaUSA
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- LEAD Center and Department of EpidemiologyColorado School of Public HealthAuroraColoradoUSA
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- Departments of Epidemiology and Maternal and Child Health; Gillings School of Global Public HealthUniversity of North CarolinaChapel HillNorth CarolinaUSA
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- Department of PsychiatryColumbia University, New York State Psychiatric InstituteNew YorkNew YorkUSA
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- Department of Mental HealthJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public HealthBaltimoreMarylandUSA
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- Departments of Pediatrics and Environmental & Occupational Health SciencesUniversity of WashingtonSeattleWashingtonUSA
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- Brown Center for the Study of Children at Risk and Departments of Psychiatry and Human Behavior and Pediatrics, Alpert Medical School, Brown UniversityWomen and Infants Hospital in Rhode IslandProvidenceRhode IslandUSA
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- Department of EpidemiologyJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public HealthBaltimoreMarylandUSA
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- Department of EpidemiologyJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public HealthBaltimoreMarylandUSA
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- Department of EpidemiologyJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public HealthBaltimoreMarylandUSA
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- Department of Population MedicineHarvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care InstituteBostonMassachusettsUSA
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- Center for Environmental Research and Children's HealthUniversity of California, Berkeley, School of Public HealthBerkeleyCaliforniaUSA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Seattle Children's Research InstituteUniversity of WashingtonSeattleWashingtonUSA
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- Department of Preventive MedicineUniversity of Tennessee Health Science CenterMemphisTennesseeUSA
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- Department of Mental HealthJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public HealthBaltimoreMarylandUSA
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- Department of Medical Social Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, and Institute for Innovations in Developmental SciencesNorthwestern UniversityChicagoIllinoisUSA
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- Department of EpidemiologyJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public HealthBaltimoreMarylandUSA
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- Department of PediatricsUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of MedicineChapel HillNorth CarolinaUSA
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- Department of Mental HealthJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public HealthBaltimoreMarylandUSA
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Reiss D, Ganiban JM, Leve LD, Neiderhiser JM, Shaw DS, Natsuaki MN. Parenting in the Context of the Child: Genetic and Social Processes. Monogr Soc Res Child Dev 2022; 87:7-188. [PMID: 37070594 PMCID: PMC10329459 DOI: 10.1111/mono.12460] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2022] [Revised: 12/27/2022] [Accepted: 12/27/2022] [Indexed: 04/19/2023]
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The focus on the role of parenting in child development has a long-standing history. When measures of parenting precede changes in child development, researchers typically infer a causal role of parenting practices and attitudes on child development. However, this research is usually conducted with parents raising their own biological offspring. Such research designs cannot account for the effects of genes that are common to parents and children, nor for genetically influenced traits in children that influence how they are parented and how parenting affects them. The aim of this monograph is to provide a clearer view of parenting by synthesizing findings from the Early Growth and Development Study (EGDS). EGDS is a longitudinal study of adopted children, their birth parents, and their rearing parents studied across infancy and childhood. Families (N = 561) were recruited in the United States through adoption agencies between 2000 and 2010. Data collection began when adoptees were 9 months old (males = 57.2%; White 54.5%, Black 13.2%, Hispanic/Latinx 13.4%, Multiracial 17.8%, other 1.1%). The median child age at adoption placement was 2 days (M = 5.58, SD = 11.32). Adoptive parents were predominantly in their 30s, White, and coming from upper-middle- or upper-class backgrounds with high educational attainment (a mode at 4-year college or graduate degree). Most adoptive parents were heterosexual couples, and were married at the beginning of the project. The birth parent sample was more racially and ethnically diverse, but the majority (70%) were White. At the beginning of the study, most birth mothers and fathers were in their 20s, with a mode of educational attainment at high school degree, and few of them were married. We have been following these family members over time, assessing their genetic influences, prenatal environment, rearing environment, and child development. Controlling for effects of genes common to parents and children, we confirmed some previously reported associations between parenting, parent psychopathology, and marital adjustment in relation to child problematic and prosocial behavior. We also observed effects of children's heritable characteristics, characteristics thought to be transmitted from parent to child by genetic means, on their parents and how those effects contributed to subsequent child development. For example, we found that genetically influenced child impulsivity and social withdrawal both elicited harsh parenting, whereas a genetically influenced sunny disposition elicited parental warmth. We found numerous instances of children's genetically influenced characteristics that enhanced positive parental influences on child development or that protected them from harsh parenting. Integrating our findings, we propose a new, genetically informed process model of parenting. We posit that parents implicitly or explicitly detect genetically influenced liabilities and assets in their children. We also suggest future research into factors such as marital adjustment, that favor parents responding with appropriate protection or enhancement. Our findings illustrate a productive use of genetic information in prevention research: helping parents respond effectively to a profile of child strengths and challenges rather than using genetic information simply to identify some children unresponsive to current preventive interventions.
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- David Reiss
- Yale Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine
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Austerberry C, Fearon P, Ronald A, Leve LD, Ganiban JM, Natsuaki MN, Shaw DS, Neiderhiser JM, Reiss D. Early manifestations of intellectual performance: Evidence that genetic effects on later academic test performance are mediated through verbal performance in early childhood. Child Dev 2022; 93:e188-e206. [PMID: 34783370 PMCID: PMC10861934 DOI: 10.1111/cdev.13706] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Intellectual performance is highly heritable and robustly predicts lifelong health and success but the earliest manifestations of genetic effects on this asset are not well understood. This study examined whether early executive function (EF) or verbal performance mediate genetic influences on subsequent intellectual performance, in 561 U.S.-based adoptees (57% male) and their birth and adoptive parents (70% and 92% White, 13% and 4% African American, 7% and 2% Latinx, respectively), administered measures in 2003-2017. Genetic influences on children's academic performance at 7 years were mediated by verbal performance at 4.5 years (β = .22, 95% CI [0.08, 0.35], p = .002) and not via EF, indicating that verbal performance is an early manifestation of genetic propensity for intellectual performance.
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- Chloe Austerberry
- Research Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, UCL, London, UK
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- Research Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, UCL, London, UK
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London, London, UK
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- Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, USA
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, George Washington University, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside, California, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Yale Child Study Center, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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Ramos AM, Shewark EA, Fosco GM, Shaw DS, Reiss D, Natsuaki MN, Leve LD, Neiderhiser JM. Reexamining the association between the interparental relationship and parent-child interactions: Incorporating heritable influences. Dev Psychol 2022; 58:43-54. [PMID: 35073119 PMCID: PMC8973458 DOI: 10.1037/dev0001278] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Family systems research has identified two key processes (spillover and compensatory), linking interparental relationship quality to the parent-child relationship. However, previous research has focused on the parent as the sole initiator and had not often considered the role of the child in these processes. The present study adds to the literature by leveraging a genetically informed design to examine possible child evocative effects on spillover and compensatory processes. Participants were from a longitudinal parent-offspring adoption sample of 361 linked sets of adoptive parents of an adopted child (57% male), and the child's birth parents. Adoptive parents reported on child pleasure and anger at 18 months and the interparental relationship at 27 months. Parent-child interactions were observed at child age 6 years, and heritable influences were assessed via birth mother self-report at 5 months. Our results indicated a dampening effect where higher interparental warmth at child age 27 months was associated with less adoptive mother-child coercion at child age 6 years, and a compensatory effect where higher interparental conflict was associated with more adoptive father-child positive engagement. Moreover, our results indicated child-driven effects via both genetic and environmental pathways. Specifically, higher levels of birth mother negative affect (heritable characteristic) were associated with lower levels of adoptive father-child coercion. Also, child anger was positively associated with interparental conflict, and child pleasure was positively associated with interparental warmth. These findings support findings from the family literature with evidence of compensatory mechanisms, while also highlighting the active role children play in shaping family interactions. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).
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- Amanda M. Ramos
- Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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- Human Development and Family Studies, The Pennsylvania State University
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- Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine
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Stratakis N, Garcia E, Chandran A, Hsu T, Alshawabkeh A, Aris IM, Aschner JL, Breton C, Burbank A, Camargo CA, Carroll KN, Chen Z, Claud EC, Dabelea D, Dunlop AL, Elliott AJ, Ferrara A, Ganiban JM, Gern JE, Gold DR, Gower WA, Hertz-Picciotto I, Karagas MR, Karr CJ, Lester B, Leve LD, Litonjua AA, Ludena Y, McEvoy CT, Miller RL, Mueller NT, O’Connor TG, Oken E, O’Shea TM, Perera F, Stanford JB, Rivera-Spoljaric K, Rundle A, Trasande L, Wright RJ, Zhang Y, Zhu Y, Berhane K, Gilliland F, Chatzi L. The Role of Childhood Asthma in Obesity Development: A Nationwide US Multicohort Study. Epidemiology 2022; 33:131-140. [PMID: 34561347 PMCID: PMC8633057 DOI: 10.1097/ede.0000000000001421] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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RATIONALE Asthma and obesity often co-occur. It has been hypothesized that asthma may contribute to childhood obesity onset. OBJECTIVES To determine if childhood asthma is associated with incident obesity and examine the role of asthma medication in this association. METHODS We studied 8,716 children between ages 6 and 18.5 years who were nonobese at study entry participating in 18 US cohorts of the Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes program (among 7,299 children with complete covariate data mean [SD] study entry age = 7.2 [1.6] years and follow up = 5.3 [3.1] years). MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS We defined asthma based on caregiver report of provider diagnosis. Incident obesity was defined as the first documented body mass index ≥95th percentile for age and sex following asthma status ascertainment. Over the study period, 26% of children had an asthma diagnosis and 11% developed obesity. Cox proportional hazards models with sex-specific baseline hazards were fitted to assess the association of asthma diagnosis with obesity incidence. Children with asthma had a 23% (95% confidence intervals [CI] = 4, 44) higher risk for subsequently developing obesity compared with those without asthma. A novel mediation analysis was also conducted to decompose the total asthma effect on obesity into pathways mediated and not mediated by asthma medication use. Use of asthma medication attenuated the total estimated effect of asthma on obesity by 64% (excess hazard ratios = 0.64; 95% CI = -1.05, -0.23). CONCLUSIONS This nationwide study supports the hypothesis that childhood asthma is associated with later risk of obesity. Asthma medication may reduce this association and merits further investigation as a potential strategy for obesity prevention among children with asthma.
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- Nikos Stratakis
- Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD
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- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA
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- Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston MA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, Nutley NJ and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- Departments of Pediatrics and Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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- University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO
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- Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing and Department of Family & Preventive Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
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- Department of Psychology The George Washington University, Washington, DC
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI
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- Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States; Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC
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- Department of Pediatrics & Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington, WA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior and Department of Pediatrics, Brown Alpert Medical School and Women and Infants Hospital, Providence, RI
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- Department of Education, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
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- Division of Pediatric Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY
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- University of California, Davis, School of Medicine, CA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR
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- Division of Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
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- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD
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- Departments of Psychiatry, Psychology, Neuroscience and Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Rochester, NY
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- Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston MA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC
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- Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY
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- Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
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- Division of Allergy, Immunology, and Pulmonary Medicine, Department of PediatricsSt. Louis Children’s Hospital, Washington University School of Medicine St. Louis, MO
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- Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY
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- Departments of Pediatrics, Environmental Medicine and Population Health, New York University School of Medicine, NY
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- Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
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- Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research
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- Department of Biostatistics, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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Shewark EA, Ramos AM, Liu C, Ganiban JM, Fosco G, Shaw DS, Reiss D, Natsuaki MN, Leve LD, Neiderhiser JM. The role of child negative emotionality in parenting and child adjustment: Gene-environment interplay. J Child Psychol Psychiatry 2021; 62:1453-1461. [PMID: 33821495 PMCID: PMC8492791 DOI: 10.1111/jcpp.13420] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 02/23/2021] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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BACKGROUND Evocative gene-environment correlation (rGE) describes a process through which children's heritable characteristics influence their rearing environments. The current study examined whether heritable influences on parenting and children's behavioural outcomes operate through child negative emotionality. METHOD Using data from the Early Growth and Development Study, we examined associations among adoptive parent reports of child anger and sadness at 4.5 years, adoptive parents' hostile and warm parenting at 6 years and child behavioural problems and social competence at age 7. Birth parent temperament was included to test whether child effects on parents reflect evocative gene-environment correlation (rGE). RESULTS Child anger at 4.5 years evoked hostile parenting from adoptive parents at 6 years, which was subsequently related to child problem behaviours at 7 years. Evocative rGE effects were identified for adoptive parents' hostile parenting. CONCLUSIONS By employing a genetically informed design, we found that birth parent temperament was related to child negative emotionality. Adoptive parents were sensitive to child negative emotionality, and this sensitivity was linked to the child's later adjustment.
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Cioffi CC, Leve LD, Natsuaki MN, Shaw DS, Reiss D, Ganiban JM, Neiderhiser JM. Examining reciprocal associations between parent depressive symptoms and child internalizing symptoms on subsequent psychiatric disorders: An adoption study. Depress Anxiety 2021; 38:1211-1224. [PMID: 34185940 PMCID: PMC8664963 DOI: 10.1002/da.23190] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2020] [Revised: 06/14/2021] [Accepted: 06/17/2021] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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INTRODUCTION The dynamic interplay between parent depressive symptoms and child internalizing behavior over time is not well understood. METHODS We used data from a prospective parent-offspring adoption design (N = 561) to examine associations between adoptive parent depressive symptoms and child internalizing behavior when children were ages 18 months, 27 months, 4.5 years, and 6 years, and subsequent child psychiatric disorder symptoms when children were between the ages of 6-8 years. Models also accounted for the contributions of birth parent psychopathology, birth mother depressive symptoms during pregnancy, and infant negative emotionality. Bidirectional associations between adoptive parent depressive symptoms and child internalizing behavior were examined using a random-intercept cross-lagged panel model. RESULTS There was evidence for associations between child internalizing behavior and adoptive parent depressive symptoms over time, with mothers' depressive symptoms being a more salient risk factor for child internalizing behavior than fathers'. We found one significant cross-lagged association from adoptive mother depressive symptoms at child age 18 months to child internalizing behavior at age 27 months. Infant negative emotionality (i.e., emotional liability) at age 9 months predicted both child internalizing behavior and adoptive parent depressive symptoms. CONCLUSION Results suggest that postnatal maternal depressive symptoms confer specific risks for child internalizing behaviors in toddlerhood and childhood and depressive symptoms in childhood.
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- Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon, Eugene, USA
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Ganiban JM, Liu C, Zappaterra L, An S, Natsuaki MN, Neiderhiser JM, Reiss D, Shaw DS, Leve LD. Gene × Environment Interactions in the Development of Preschool Effortful Control, and Its Implications for Childhood Externalizing Behavior. Behav Genet 2021; 51:448-462. [PMID: 34160711 PMCID: PMC8915202 DOI: 10.1007/s10519-021-10073-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2021] [Accepted: 06/11/2021] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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This study examined the role of gene × environment interaction (G × E) in the development of effortful control (EC) and externalizing symptoms (EXT). Participants included 361 adopted children, and their Adoptive Parents (APs) and Birth Mothers (BMs), drawn from the Early Growth and Development Study. The primary adoptive caregivers' (AP1) laxness and overreactivity were assessed when children were 27-months-old, and used as indices of environmental influences on EC. Heritable influences on child EC were assessed by the BMs' personality characteristics (emotion dysregulation, agreeableness). Secondary adoptive caregivers (AP2) reported on children's EC at 54 months, and EXT at 7 years. Interactions between BM characteristics and AP1 laxness were related to EC and indirectly predicted EXT via EC. Parental laxness and EC were positively associated if children had high heritable risk for poor EC (BM high emotion dysregulation or low agreeableness), but negatively associated if children had low heritable risk for poor EC (BM low emotion dysregulation or high agreeableness). BM agreeableness also moderated associations between AP1 overreactivity and effortful control, and yielded a similar pattern of results. Our findings suggest that G × E is an important first step in the development of EXT via its effect on EC. Consistent with "goodness of fit" models, heritable tendencies can affect which parenting practices best support EC development.
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- Jody M Ganiban
- George Washington University, Washington, D.C., USA.
- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, George Washington University, 2125 G St., NW, Washington, D.C., 20052, USA.
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- George Washington University, Washington, D.C., USA
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- George Washington University, Washington, D.C., USA
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- Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, USA
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Chilenski SM, Pasch KE, Knapp A, Baker E, Boyd RC, Cioffi C, Cooper B, Fagan A, Hill L, Leve LD, Rulison K. The Society for Prevention Research 20 Years Later: a Summary of Training Needs. Prev Sci 2021; 21:985-1000. [PMID: 32743792 PMCID: PMC7462903 DOI: 10.1007/s11121-020-01151-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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The Society for Prevention Research (SPR) aims to continually provide relevant professional development training opportunities to advance scientific investigation of ways to improve the health, well-being, and social and educational outcomes of individuals and communities. Our study, led by the Training Needs Assessment Task Force, designed a quantitative questionnaire informed by semistructured, qualitative interviews of 13 key prevention science informants. The questionnaire was deployed to all SPR members, of which 347 completed it. Questions about training topics were asked along 8 categories: (1) theory; (2) preventive interventions; (3) research methods, design, and evaluation; (4) teaching and mentoring; (5) practical and interpersonal skills; (6) communication; (7) project management; and (8) data analysis. Across all categories, respondents reported a high level of interest in receiving training: more than 80% were interested in training in data analytic methods; about 70% indicated interest in theory, preventive interventions, and research methods, design, and evaluation; about 65% were interested in at least 1 communication and project management topic; and 60% showed interest in at least 1 practical and interpersonal skills topic. Training-related interests varied across career level and race/ethnicity, with early-career individuals and people of color typically indicating the most interest. Participants were most likely to endorse self-initiated learning and webinars. SPR preconference training workshops were strongly endorsed for data analysis and preventive intervention topics. Recommendations from our study include a need for SPR to more strongly support self-initiated learning opportunities and continue preconference training programs, with special focuses in statistical methods and preventive interventions and regular assessment of members’ training preferences.
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- Sarah M Chilenski
- Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA.
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- Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
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- The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA
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- University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, USA
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Sellers R, Harold GT, Thapar A, Neiderhiser JM, Ganiban JM, Reiss D, Shaw DS, Natsuaki MN, Leve LD. Correction to: Examining the Role of Genetic Risk and Longitudinal Transmission Processes Underlying Maternal Parenting and Psychopathology and Children's ADHD Symptoms and Aggression: Utilizing the Advantages of a Prospective Adoption Design. Behav Genet 2021; 51:440. [PMID: 34028629 DOI: 10.1007/s10519-021-10061-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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- Ruth Sellers
- Department of Primary Care & Public Health, Brighton & Sussex Medical School, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
- Institute of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, School of Medicine, MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
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- Institute of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, School of Medicine, MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK.
- Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, UK.
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- Institute of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, School of Medicine, MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
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- Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA
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- Yale Child Study Center, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside, CA, USA
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- Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA
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Hu A, Van Ryzin MJ, Schweer-Collins ML, Leve LD. Peer Relations and Delinquency Among Girls in Foster Care Following a Skill-Building Preventive Intervention. Child Maltreat 2021; 26:205-215. [PMID: 32406265 PMCID: PMC7666035 DOI: 10.1177/1077559520923033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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There is evidence that risk for delinquency is elevated among girls with foster care histories, and one correlate of delinquency is affiliating with peers who engage in delinquent behavior. Although intervention studies have shown positive effects of interventions that target delinquent peer affiliation on reductions in delinquency among adolescents with juvenile justice histories, the success of such interventions for younger girls in foster care, without prior involvement with juvenile justice, is unknown. We analyzed data from a randomized clinical trial of the middle school version of the Keep Safe intervention in a sample of girls in foster care (n = 100). The intervention was delivered to girls and foster parents during the transition to middle school. Path analysis suggested a significant intervention effect on reduction in affiliation with delinquent peers at 12 months (B = -.21). No significant mediation effects were identified. The middle school Keep Safe intervention shows promise as a preventative intervention for reducing affiliation with delinquent peers, which importantly is associated with adolescent delinquent behavior. Implications for researchers and professionals who tailor and deliver evidence-based programs for girls in foster care are discussed.
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- Alana Hu
- 3265University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA
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Tavalire HF, Christie DM, Leve LD, Ting N, Cresko WA, Bohannan BJM. Shared Environment and Genetics Shape the Gut Microbiome after Infant Adoption. mBio 2021; 12:e00548-21. [PMID: 33785620 PMCID: PMC8092250 DOI: 10.1128/mbio.00548-21] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2021] [Accepted: 03/02/2021] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
Abstract
The composition of the human gut microbiome is highly variable, and this variation has been repeatedly tied to variation in human health. However, the sources of microbial variation remain unclear, especially early in life. It is particularly important to understand sources of early life variation in the microbiome because the state of the microbiome in childhood can influence lifelong health. Here, we compared the gut microbiomes of children adopted in infancy to those of genetically unrelated children in the same household and genetically related children raised in other households. We observed that a shared home environment was the strongest predictor of overall microbiome similarity. Among those microbial taxa whose variation was significantly explained by our models, the abundance of a given taxon was more frequently explained by host genetic similarity (relatedness), while the presence of a given taxon was more dependent upon a shared home environment. This suggests that although the home environment may act as a species source pool for the gut microbiome in childhood, host genetic factors likely drive variation in microbial abundance once a species colonizes the gut.IMPORTANCE Our results demonstrate that the early life home environment can significantly alter the gut microbiome in childhood, potentially altering health outcomes or risk for adverse health outcomes. A better understanding of the drivers of gut microbiome variation during childhood could lead to more effective intervention strategies for overall health starting in early life.
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Affiliation(s)
- Hannah F Tavalire
- Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, USA
- Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, USA
| | - Diana M Christie
- Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, USA
- Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, USA
| | - Leslie D Leve
- Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, USA
| | - Nelson Ting
- Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, USA
- Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, USA
| | - William A Cresko
- Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, USA
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