Family-based training program improves brain function, cognition, and behavior in lower socioeconomic status preschoolers
Family-based training program improves brain function, cognition, and behavior in lower socioeconomic status preschoolers
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DOI：
10.1073/pnas.1304437110
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发表时间：
2013-07-16
影响因子：
11.1
通讯作者：
Isbell, Elif
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作者：
Neville, Helen J.;Stevens, Courtney;Isbell, Elif
利用选择性注意力的神经可塑性和成功的父母在儿童发展中的核心作用的研究信息，我们开发并严格评估了一个以家庭为基础的训练计划，旨在改善学龄前儿童的选择性注意力的大脑系统。141名低社会经济地位的学龄前儿童参加了一个开端计划，被随机分配到培训计划，开端单独，或积极的控制组。支持选择性注意力的儿童大脑功能的电生理测量，认知的标准化测量，以及父母报告的儿童行为都有利于儿童在治疗计划相对于两个对照组。父母本身也发生了积极的变化。影响大小范围从四分之一到一半的标准差。这些结果为进一步发展和更广泛地实施针对高危家庭的循证教育方案提供了动力。
Using information from research on the neuroplasticity of selective attention and on the central role of successful parenting in child development, we developed and rigorously assessed a family-based training program designed to improve brain systems for selective attention in preschool children. One hundred forty-one lower socioeconomic status preschoolers enrolled in a Head Start program were randomly assigned to the training program, Head Start alone, or an active control group. Electrophysiological measures of children's brain functions supporting selective attention, standardized measures of cognition, and parent-reported child behaviors all favored children in the treatment program relative to both control groups. Positive changes were also observed in the parents themselves. Effect sizes ranged from one-quarter to half of a standard deviation. These results lend impetus to the further development and broader implementation of evidence-based education programs that target at-risk families.