Authors
Gene H Brody, Joshua C Gray, Tianyi Yu, Allen W Barton, Steven RH Beach, Adrianna Galván, James MacKillop, Michael Windle, Edith Chen, Gregory E Miller, Lawrence H Sweet
Publication date
2017/1/1
Journal
JAMA pediatrics
Volume
171
Issue
1
Pages
46-52
Publisher
American Medical Association
Description
Importance
This study was designed to determine whether a preventive intervention focused on enhancing supportive parenting could ameliorate the association between exposure to poverty and brain development in low socioeconomic status African American individuals from the rural South.
Objective
To determine whether participation in an efficacious prevention program designed to enhance supportive parenting for rural African American children will ameliorate the association between living in poverty and reduced hippocampal and amygdalar volumes in adulthood.
Design, Setting, and Participants
In the rural southeastern United States, African American parents and their 11-year-old children were assigned randomly to the Strong African American Families randomized prevention trial or to a control condition. Parents provided data used to calculate income-to-needs ratios when children were aged 11 to 13 …
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