Conditions of Birth and Early Childhood Developmental Risk for Mental Disorders
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Dean, Kimberlie
Watkeys, Oliver J
Laurens, Kristin R
Tzoumakis, Stacy
Carr, Vaughan J
Green, Melissa J
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Distinct classes of children in the general population are at increased odds of later mental illness and other adverse outcomes according to patterns of early childhood developmental vulnerability. If certain risk factors known at the time of birth are reliably associated with membership in early childhood risk classes, then preventative interventions could be initiated in the earliest years of life. Associations between 14 factors known at the time of birth and membership in early childhood risk classes were examined in 66,464 children. Risk class membership was associated with maternal mental illness, parental criminal charges and being male; distinct patterns of association were shown for some conditions, for example, prenatal child protection notification was uniquely associated with misconduct risk’. These findings suggest that risk factors known at the time of birth could assist in very early detection of children who may benefit from early intervention in the first 2000 days.
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Child Psychiatry & Human Development
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Clinical sciences
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Harris, F; Dean, K; Watkeys, OJ; Laurens, KR; Tzoumakis, S; Carr, VJ; Green, MJ, Conditions of Birth and Early Childhood Developmental Risk for Mental Disorders, Child Psychiatry & Human Development, 2023