Early Intervention, Maternal Depressed Mood & Child Cognitive Development
Duration: 30 mins
DOI: 10.13056/acamh.18654
Description
In this podcast, we talk to Professor Mark Tomlinson of the Department of Global Health Institute for Life Course Health Research, Stellenbosch University in Stellenbosch, South Africa. The focus of this podcast is on the JCPP paper, ‘First 1,000 days: enough for mothers but not for children? Long-term outcomes of an early intervention on maternal depressed mood and child cognitive development: follow-up of a randomised controlled trial’.
Learning Objectives
1. Summary of the paper and highlighting the methodology used for the research, and some of the key findings.
2. Mark then provides further insight into the finding that, although the paper describes how caregivers who received a home visiting intervention during their pregnancies and postpartum did show lasting improvements in depressed mood, and that the intervention was also associated with mothers being more sensitive and less intrusive in their interactions with their infants and to a higher rate of secure infant attachment at 18 months, there was a lack of long-term developmental benefit for the children.
3. Discuss what message professionals, researchers, and policymakers should take from his findings, and provide additional information with regard to follow up research.
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