Does Child Care in the First Year of Life Pose a Risk for Concurrent and Future Ear Infections?

Autor/inn/en	Farrant, Brad M.; Harrison, Linda J.; Wise, Sarah; Smith, Grant; Zubrick, Stephen R.
Titel	Does Child Care in the First Year of Life Pose a Risk for Concurrent and Future Ear Infections?
Quelle	In: Child Care in Practice, 25 (2019) 3, S.263-280 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1357-5279
DOI	10.1080/13575279.2017.1403889
Schlagwörter	Child Care Centers; Child Health; Diseases; Risk; Infants; Young Children; Foreign Countries; Individual Characteristics; Mothers; Parent Background; Educational Attainment; Socioeconomic Status; Smoking; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Child care facilities; Child care services; Kinderzentrum; Kinderbetreuung; Disease; Krankheit; Risiko; Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Frühe Kindheit; Ausland; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Mother; Mutter; Elternhaus; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; Rauchen; Australien
Abstract	Child care centre attendance is associated with an increased risk of concurrent ear infections, but what is less clear is whether there are any positive or negative long-term effects of early child care attendance on the incidence of ear infections in later childhood. This research assessed the impact of early child care attendance on concurrent and long-term risk of ear infections. Complete sets of relevant wave 1-5 data from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children were available for 3513 children (1822 boys) who had a median age of 9 months (M = 8.7, SD = 2.6) at wave 1, 34 months (M = 33.8, SD = 2.9) at wave 2, 57 months (M = 57.5, SD = 2.8) at wave 3, 82 months (M = 81.8, SD = 3.5) at wave 4, and 107 months (M = 107.1, SD = 3.6) at wave 5. At waves 1 and 2, children who attended child care centres had a significantly increased risk of concurrent ear infections than children with exclusive parental care. The longitudinal analyses found no evidence of increased (or decreased) long-term risk of ear infections in subsequent waves associated with attending a child care centre in the first 12 months (or the first 30 months) of life. However, having ear infections at wave 1 was a significant risk factor for ear infections at subsequent waves. Future research is needed to design and investigate appropriate interventions to ameliorate these increased risks. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01