Parental sensitivity mediates the sustained effect of Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up on cortisol in middle childhood: A randomized clinical trial.
Parental sensitivity mediates the sustained effect of Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up on cortisol in middle childhood: A randomized clinical trial.
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DOI:
10.1016/j.psyneuen.2020.104809
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发表时间:
2020-11
影响因子:
3.7
通讯作者:
Dozier M
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作者:
Garnett M;Bernard K;Hoye J;Zajac L;Dozier M
Parenting interventions have been found to normalize children’s cortisol regulation among high-risk children early in development; it is important to investigate sustainability of these effects and their mechanisms, given the maladaptive outcomes associated with cortisol dysregulation. To determine whether the Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up (ABC) intervention, implemented in infancy, predicts cortisol regulation in middle childhood via changes in parental sensitivity. Double blind randomized clinical trial design; started January 2006, with the follow-up for this project concluded March 2016 Parents of children under age 2 referred from child protective services agencies in a large, mid-Atlantic city 103 parent-child dyads (45.6% female children) with histories of child protective services involvement, randomly assigned to receive ABC (n = 45) or a control intervention (n = 58); in infancy, the children’s ages ranged from 1.60 to 25.30 months (M = 9.87 months); at the middle childhood follow-up, they ranged from 8.0 to 11.0 years old (M = 8.52 years). Both conditions included 10-week, in-home, manualized interventions. The experimental condition, ABC, has 3 primary targets for parents: increasing nurturance to child distress, increasing following the child’s lead, and decreasing frightening behavior. The control intervention, Developmental Education for Families (DEF), is an adaptation of a program focused on enhancing cognitive and language development. Parental sensitivity was coded from a semi-structured interaction task between the parent and child in early childhood. Middle childhood diurnal cortisol slopes were modeled by collecting salivary cortisol samples from children at wake-up and bedtime over the course of 3 consecutive days. ABC participation in infancy was associated with increased parental sensitivity post-intervention, β = 0.28, p = .004, and this increased sensitivity predicted steeper decline across the day in children’s cortisol concentration in middle childhood, β = −.53, p= .002. The indirect effect of ABC on cortisol regulation via sensitivity was significant, β = −0.15, p = .038. ABC has an indirect effect on middle childhood diurnal cortisol regulation via parental sensitivity; future research should seek to determine how this enhanced neurobiological regulation relates to children’s behavioral, socioemotional, and psychological outcomes. clinicaltrials.gov Identifier: NCT02093052 Children facing early life adversity often show dysregulated functioning of the hypothalamic pituitary adrenal (HPA) axis in the form of blunted diurnal cortisol rhythms. Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up (ABC) is an intervention developed to enhance biological and behavioral regulation in children exposed to early adversity by targeting parental sensitivity. Implemented in infancy, ABC has been found to have lasting effects on children’s diurnal cortisol production into early childhood. The present study explored the enduring impact of ABC on cortisol regulation in middle childhood and examined the role of parental sensitivity as a mediator. Participants were 103 Child Protective Services referred children and their parents who participated in a randomized clinical trial of ABC. At post-intervention (M age = 20.66 [5.23] months), parental sensitivity was coded from a semi-structured interaction task. In middle childhood, parents collected saliva samples from their child (M age = 8.52 [0.67] years) at wake-up and bedtime for 3 consecutive days. Samples were assayed to determine cortisol concentration and the diurnal cortisol slope was estimated as a latent change score. Parents who were randomized to ABC were rated higher in parental sensitivity during their children’s infancy than parents in the control group, β = 0.28, p = .004, and this increased sensitivity predicted a steeper, more normative decline in cortisol concentration from wake-up to bedtime in middle childhood, β = −.53, p = .002. Further, the indirect effect of ABC on children’s diurnal cortisol slope via post-intervention sensitivity was significant, β = −0.15, p = .038, suggesting that parental sensitivity mediated the association between ABC and children’s diurnal cortisol slope in middle childhood.
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4.6
作者:
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通讯作者:
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DOI:
10.1001/archpediatrics.2010.54
发表时间:
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