ARTICLE CRITIQUE

Article Critique

A Rural Based Study of Developmental Outcomes in Young Children Prenatally Exposed to Cocaine.

Purpose & Objevtive

The basic motive of this research was to determine the developmental outcome between the cocaine exposure and the children of rural areas in relation to the differences in the functions of the cognition measured by the Mullen scale of early learning. Further, it determine the relationship between the young children of rural areas of Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi of the age group of 6 to 13 years, having an impact of cocaine on their overall personality.

Study Design

The study was based on the theoretical analysis, where public health nurses/caseworkers, Montessori directors and teachers, preschool and parents of the children were involved program professionals in the rural states of Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi screened agency / program data and records for young children who might serve as potential participants in this study.

Various methods were used to enhance the validity and reliability for the study. 1stly the participant were matched to the variables given, secondly inter scorer reliability estimates were obtained via the employment of an alternating role system

Research Questions

The assessment conducted was mostly behavioral; the study employed a quasi-experimental, non-equivalent group design. When experimental subjects are people, randomization or the existence of a control group can be problematic or impossible, so the quasi-experimental studies emerged as a possible alternative. Similarly, one can not always handle the study factor.

Conceptualization issues,

The children who are exposed to cocian before the birthe show a varied difference in the cognitive abitlty and thining provesess once they reach their school age. However, it is seen that most of the children show good results in the first year then after some time the memory power stat to detoriate slowly

One study showed that fewer children aged 3 to 5 years exposed to cocaine were living with their parents compared with the unexposed, but those who remained with their biological parents performed better on cognitive tests than those who lived with relatives or foster families. Furthermore, the adoption did not improve cognitive development in a study of prenatal cocaine exposure, but another study showed that children not living with their biological mothers had a higher IQ at age 3 than children who did.

Conclusion

The researcher states that, prenatal cocaine exposure is related to the head circumference at birth, smaller and less optimal home environments, which in turn, still have a slight direct effects on development outcomes at 3 years. These effects persist at 5 years and 7 times more demands are placed on children during the school year, according to the conclusions he draws researchers presented at the recent Annual Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development.

By the age of 3 years, more cocaine to the child has been exposed to more head circumference at birth and the smaller head circumference at birth, or worse cognitive development result. Average daily cocaine among 154 mothers who used drugs throughout pregnancy was $ 32.70, the cost equivalent of about three rocks of ...