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The purpose of this study is to determine the effects of early intervention (placement into foster care, and a caregiving training) on physical, cognitive, social and brain development and psychiatric symptomatology in children place in out-of-home care.


Clinical Trial Description

The Early Institutionalization Intervention Impact (EI-3) Project will document and compare the impact of enhanced institutional care on early childhood development to that of high-quality foster care. We will recruit a large (n= 220) samples of young children who have been identified as having to be removed from their families and we will randomize these children to two groups: enhanced institutional care (Group 1) or to enhanced foster care (Group 2). Institutional caregivers and Foster Parents will participate in a caregiving training, along with the child, that includes 5-1.5 hour sessions over 6-8 weeks. In this Randomized Control Trial (RCT), we will assess the children in Groups 1 and 2 at the time they come into care and then at several follow-up time points (12 months, 24 months, 36 months of age). We hypothesize that children placed into foster/family care (FCG) will display enhanced socioemotional development, and enhanced behavioral and neural patterns of attention, cognition and social cognition, compared to children placed in enhanced institutional care. ;


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NCT number NCT04165746
Study type Interventional
Source Boston Children's Hospital
Contact Charles A Nelson, PhD
Phone 617-355-0401
Email charles.nelson@childrens.harvard.edu
Status Recruiting
Phase N/A
Start date March 16, 2023
Completion date March 31, 2026

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