Turning 1 Year of Age in a Low Socioeconomic Environment: A Portrait of Disadvantage.
Turning 1 Year of Age in a Low Socioeconomic Environment: A Portrait of Disadvantage.
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10.1097/dbp.0000000000000469
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2017-09
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Betancourt LM
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Hurt H;Betancourt LM
In the United States today, 16 million children are growing up poor. Few studies report multiple environmental factors associated with poverty during the first year of life and effects on infant development. To evaluate maternal, home, and neighborhood environment of Low and Higher Socioeconomic Status (SES) infants from birth to 1 year; to evaluate impact of SES and environment on infant developmental outcome at 1 year. Low (n=30) and Higher SES (n=30) African American mothers and their healthy term gestation female infants were prospectively compared for environmental characteristics and infant developmental outcome. Environment-Maternal: Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-IV (WAIS-IV); Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II); Perceived Stress Scale (PSS); Parenting Stress Index (PSI-4); Social Support Scale (SSS); Home: Home Observation Measurement of the Environment (HOME); Household Food Insecurity (HFI); Neighborhood: Concentrated Neighborhood Disadvantage (CND). Infant Outcome-Bayley Scales of Infant Development Third Edition (BSID-III); Preschool Language Scale (PLS-5). Environmental risk was greater for Low compared to Higher SES: lower WAIS-IV (p< 0.001); higher PSI-4 Total (p=0.003); lower HOME Total and 3 subscales (p<0.002); higher HFI (p=0.012); and higher CND (p=0.027). Low SES infant outcomes differed from Higher SES: lower BSID-III Cognitive Composite (p=0.005), PLS-5 Total Language (p ≤ 0.017), and Auditory Comprehension (p ≤ 0.008). In regressions, after controlling for SES, effects of environmental factors were not found. By age one, Low SES infants had been exposed to greater environmental disadvantage, and already exhibited poorer developmental functioning than Higher SES infants. These findings suggest support for families and children from impoverished circumstances cannot begin too early.