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The problem
Intervention: No intervention was tested; this is an observational study examining the relationship between maternal characteristics (anxiety, aggression, alexithymia) and child negation formation
Who it was tested with: 22 mother-child dyads; children aged 24-36 months with Down syndrome from Russia.
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.
"The research shows the connection between mother's aggressiveness and formation of the child's negation reaction (gesture/sound or the whole body) as well as differences in the level of alexithymia and anxiety: all the characteristics are lower in the first group." This observational study lacks experimental controls and uses only correlational analysis to explore associations between maternal and child characteristics.
Small sample size without a control group of typically developing children; cross-sectional design cannot establish causality; unclear whether maternal characteristics influence child development or vice versa
Across countries and designs
40 studies · 42 countries
