The Brain and Early Experience Study: Protocol for a Prospective Observational Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Children raised in conditions of poverty (or near poverty) are at risk for nonoptimal mental health, educational, and occupational outcomes, many of which may be precipitated by individual differences in executive function (EF) skills that first emerge in early childhood.

Objective

The Brain and Early Experience study considers prenatal and postnatal experiences that may mediate the association between poverty and EF skills, including neural substrates. This paper described the study rationale and aims; research design issues, including sample size determination, the recruitment strategy, and participant characteristics; and a summary of developmental assessment points, procedures, and measures used to test the study hypotheses.

Methods

This is a prospectiv

SUBMITTER: Mills-Koonce WR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9280455 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature