Developing ecological and frequent measures of cognitive and psychosocial stimulation in childhood in the context of a home visitation program for pregnant youth

• Grant number: 16/13451-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctorate
• Effective date (Start): March 01, 2017
• Effective date (End): February 28, 2021
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Medicine - Psychiatry
• Acordo de Cooperação: Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)
• Principal Investigator: Guilherme Vanoni Polanczyk
• Grantee: Daniel Graça Fatori de Sá
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Medicina (FM). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 16/22455-8 - Early childhood interventions and trajectories of cognitive, social and emotional development, AP.TEM

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: The first years of life are important to child cognitive, social and emotional development. In this context parent-child interaction is a determinant of early psychosocial and cognitive stimulation, which in turn is associated with better cognitive performance, salary, schooling and mental health in adulthood. Evaluating and measuring accurately early stimulation in the first years of life is challenging due to retrospective and memory bias. Thus, Experience Sampling (ES) is a real-time assessment method with ecological validity adequate for early childhood studies. OBJECTIVES: Determine the efficacy of a nurse home visitation program for pregnant youth on early cognitive and psychosocial maternal stimulation and assess an experience sampling protocol to measure early cognitive and psychosocial. METHODS: Eighty young pregnant women aged between 14 and 20 years living in São Paulo enrolled in an ongoing clinical trial. Participants were randomly allocated to (1) nurse home visiting program or to (2) control group (usual prenatal care program). Mothers will answer questions about child cognitive and psychosocial stimulation daily via a smartphone application during a period of 7 days. After this period of time, mothers will be interviewed face-to-face with a structured questionnaire with the same questions in the ES protocol in order to validate the method. (AU)

Scientific publications

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FATORI, DANIEL; ZUCCOLO, PEDRO FONSECA; SHEPHARD, ELIZABETH; BRENTANI, HELENA; MATIJASEVICH, ALICIA; ARCHANJO FERRARO, ALEXANDRE; APARECIDA FRACOLLI, LISLAINE; CHIESA, ANNA MARIA; LECKMAN, JAMES; CONSTANTINO MIGUEL, EURIPEDES; et al. A randomized controlled trial testing the efficacy of a Nurse Home Visiting Program for Pregnant Adolescents. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, v. 11, n. 1, JUL 13 2021. (16/13451-9, 16/22455-8, 18/22396-7)

FATORI, DANIEL; ARGEU, ADRIANA; BRENTANI, HELENA; CHIESA, ANNA; FRACOLLI, LISLAINE; MATIJASEVICH, ALICIA; MIGUEL, EURIPEDES C.; POLANCZYK, GUILHERME. Maternal Parenting Electronic Diary in the Context of a Home Visit Intervention for Adolescent Mothers in an Urban Deprived Area of Sao Paulo, Brazil: Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR MHEALTH AND UHEALTH, v. 8, n. 7, JUL 28 2020. (16/13451-9)