Key result
Disrupted pre-adoption care links to lower youth-to-parent cardiac information transfer and worse youth mental health.
Why the study?
It was unclear whether prior disrupted or absent care affects moment-to-moment parent-youth interactions in ways that increase the risk for youth psychopathology.
Does disrupted/absent early care decrease child-parent cardiac transference?
Observational
Does disrupted/absent early care decrease child-parent cardiac transference?
Disrupted early care is associated with decreased child-parent cardiac transference, which correlates with worse youth mental health.
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Hypothesis-generating for dyadic cardiac dynamics in adopted youth; prospective studies needed before clinical consideration.
Callaghan et al. (2021) conducted an observational in Disrupted/absent early care and youth mental health. Disrupted/absent early care prior to adoption vs. No disrupted early care was evaluated on Cardiac information transfer (Transfer Entropy) from youth-to-parents. Disrupted or absent early care prior to adoption was associated with lower cardiac information transfer from youth to parents, which negatively correlated with youth mental health.
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