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Prenatal cocaine exposure, child development, and the compromising effects of cumulative risk
(Exposition prénatale à la cocaïne, développement de l'enfant, et effets associés à un cumul de risques.)
Auteur(s) :
TRONICK E. Z. ;
BEEGHLY, M.
Année
1999
Page(s) :
151-171
Langue(s) :
Anglais
Refs biblio. :
104
Domaine :
Drogues illicites / Illicit drugs
Thésaurus mots-clés
COCAINE
;
EFFET SECONDAIRE
;
FOETUS
;
ENFANT
;
CROISSANCE
;
FACTEUR DE VULNERABILITE
;
MILIEU SOCIOCULTUREL
;
PAUVRETE
;
FACTEUR DE RISQUE
;
RECHERCHE
Note générale :
Prenatal Drug Exposure and Child Outcome, 1999, 26, (1), 151-171
Résumé :
ENGLISH :
This article demonstrates that few effects of prenatal cocaine exposure on children's cognitive, motor, play, language, and socioemotional development during early childhood have been found. On the whole, the literature suggests that toddlers and young children who are exposed prenatally to cocaine exhibit few, if any, consistent differences in developmental functioning compared with demographically similar, nonexposed, age-matched controls. The paucity of cocaine-related findings does not mean that prenatally cocaine-exposed children are free from developmental problems. Cocaine-exposed infants may well have specific deficits that are masked by confounding factors in study designs; however, more important is the worrisome finding that the average performance of both drug-exposed and nonexposed children in the literature tends to be poorer than expectations for age. This problem likely stems from the fact that most study children in the literature (regardless of exposure status) come from low-income backgrounds and consequently have been exposed to multiple medical and social risk factors associated with long-term poverty. The fact that exposure to multiple risk factors has powerful, compromising effects on children's outcomes may overshadow any specific effects of prenatal cocaine exposure. (Extract of the publication)
Affiliation :
Child dev. Unit, Children's hosp., 1295 Boylston Street, Suite 320, Boston, MA 02215
Etats-Unis. United States.
Etats-Unis. United States.