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The problem
Intervention: Identification of infants with family CPS involvement as a marker of exposure to adversity
Who it was tested with: 55 infants aged 4-25 months (mean 11.56 months) and their mothers in the northeastern United States.
Experience from people who deliver programmes: stories, case studies and lessons learned. Valuable for understanding how and why, and for spotting what to test next, but not a measure of effect.
"This study evaluated whether family involvement with child protective services (CPS) was linked to differences in infant brain volumes (whole brain grey matter, cortical grey matter, right and left insular cortex, and right and left amygdala)." The study identifies CPS involvement as an accessible marker of caregiving adversity but cannot determine whether the brain differences reflect causal effects of maltreatment or confounding factors.
Observational cross-sectional design cannot determine causality; small sample size; no comparison of CPS involvement severity or timing; brain regions examined may not capture all effects of adversity.
Across countries and designs
1 study · 1 country
