Predictors of diagnosis of child psychiatric disorder in adult–infant social-communicative interaction at 12 months

Marwick, H; Doolin, O; Allely, CS; McConnachie, A; Johnson, P; Puckering, C; Golding, J; Gillberg, C; Wilson, P

Abstract

To establish which social interactive behaviours predict later psychiatric diagnosis, we examined 180 videos of a parent–infant interaction when children were aged one year, from within the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) cohort. Sixty of the videos involved infants who were later diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder at seven years, and 120 were a randomly selected sex-matched control group. Interactive behaviours for both the caregiver and the one year old infant were coded from the videos according to eight holistic categories of interpersonal engagement: Well-being, Contingent Responsiveness, Cooperativeness, Involvement, Activity, Playfulness, Fussiness, and Speech. Lower levels of adult activity and speech in interaction at one year significantly predicted overall diagnosis of child psychiatric disorder.

Citation

Marwick, H., Doolin, O., Allely, C., McConnachie, A., Johnson, P., Puckering, C., …Wilson, P. (2013). Predictors of diagnosis of child psychiatric disorder in adult–infant social-communicative interaction at 12 months. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 34(1), 562-572. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ridd.2012.09.007

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2013
• Deposit Date: Oct 13, 2014
• Journal: Research in Developmental Disabilities
• Print ISSN: 0891-4222
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 34
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 562-572
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ridd.2012.09.007
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ridd.2012.09.007
• Related Public URLs: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/research-in-developmental-disabilities/
• Additional Information: Funders : Gillberg Neuropsychiatry Centre;Wellcome Trust;Medical Research Council (MRC);Waterloo Foundation;Yorkhill Children's Foundation