This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), provides $174,954 to Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island to conduct research on the influence of caregiving quality on attention and executive function in children born very preterm. The award period is from August 16, 2024 to July 31, 2026.
The key products or services to be delivered under this grant include: (1) coding and analyzing observational data on multiple dimensions of caregiving quality (e.g., caregiver sensitivity and structuring) during caregiver-child interactions for a cohort of very preterm children enrolled in the NOVI study; and (2) using the new caregiving quality data along with existing child assessment data to determine predictors of caregiving quality and the associations between caregiving quality and child attention/executive function outcomes during the school-age period. The findings from this research are intended to advance theory on the role of caregiving in supporting cognitive development in very preterm children and inform the design of future interventions to mitigate cognitive deficits in this population.
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