Table 1.
Socio-demographic and developmental characteristics among children reared in institutions and community controls in the Bucharest Early Intervention Project (n=80)
| Ever Institutionalized Group (n=58) |
Never Institutionalized Group (n=22) |
Group Difference | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | SD | M | SD | F | p-value | |
| Female, No. (%) | 48.3% | 54.5% | χ21 = 0.25 | .617 | ||
| Age, (months) | ||||||
| Age at Study Entry | 17.7 | (7.8) | 20.0 | (7.2) | 1.21 | .276 |
| Age at MRI Scan | 116.3 | (9.0) | 117.9 | (10.6) | 0.1 | .816 |
| Age at HBQ Assessment | 103.2 | (4.6) | 101.4 | (4.0) | 2.49 | .149 |
| Birth Weight, (grams) | 2780.0 | (623.3) | 3150.0 | (411.8) | 4.41* | .040 |
| Head Circumference at birth (cm.) | 46.07 | (2.61) | 46.5 | (2.08) | 0.04 | .843 |
| Full-scale IQ | 72.0 | (15.8) | 107.9 | (14.67) | 96.49* | .001 |
| Intracranial Volume1 | 1,456,490 | (132,948) | 1,499,091 | (109,367) | 1.79 | .184 |
| Cerebral Grey Matter1 | 790,429 | (71,160) | 833,849 | (62,887) | 6.31* | .014 |
| Cortical Grey Matter | 577,432 | (57,120) | 613,899 | (48,391) | 7.04* | .010 |
*
Significant at the p<.05 level, 2-sided test