Attention Test Improvements from a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial of Caregiver Training for HIV-Exposed/Uninfected Ugandan Preschool Children

Ikekwere, Joseph; Ucheagwu, Valentine; Familiar‐Lopez, Itziar; Sikorskii, Alla; Awadu, Jorem; Ojuka, Julius C.; Givon, Deborah; Shohet, Cilly; Giordani, Bruno; Boivin, Michael J.

doi:10.1016/j.jpeds.2021.03.064

The Journal of Pediatrics

2021

DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2021.03.064

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Attention Test Improvements from a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial of Caregiver Training for HIV-Exposed/Uninfected Ugandan Preschool Children

Joseph Ikekwere

Valentine Ucheagwu

Itziar Familiar‐Lopez

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“…With preschool severe malaria survivors in Uganda, the ECVT also correlated significantly with other more comprehensive performance-based measures of development, such as the Mullen Scales of Early Learning (MSEL; Bangirana et al, 2014; Boivin & Sikorskii, 2013). It has also been used to evaluate the benefits of early antiretroviral treatment in Ugandan children living with HIV (Boivin et al, 2013) and among HIV-exposed/uninfected children (Boivin, Nakasujja, et al, 2017; Ikekwere et al, 2021), whose caregivers participated in a year-long biweekly training program to improve their daily interactions with their children so as to enhance their child’s development.…”

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Early Childhood Vigilance Test (ECVT) of attention in younger HIV-exposed Ugandan children predicts Tests of Variables of Attention (TOVA) at school age.

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Objective: Evaluate a computerized-based attention test in early infancy in predicting neurocognitive schoolage performance in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-exposed uninfected children. Method: Thirty-eight Ugandan HIV-exposed/uninfected children (17 boys, 21 girls) were evaluated with the Early Childhood Vigilance Test (ECVT) of attention between 3 and 5 years of age, which is a 6-min 44 s animation with colorful animals that greet the child and move across the screen. Attention was proportion of total animation time viewing a computer screen, as well as the proportion of time tracking the moving animal using eye tracking. These children were then again tested at least 2 years later (between 5 and 9 years of age) with the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children, 2nd Edition (KABC-II) and the visual computerized Tests of Variables of Attention (TOVA). Results: Irrespective of whether scored by webcam video scoring or using automated eye tracking to compute proportion of time viewing the animation, ECVT attention was significantly correlated with all TOVA outcomes for vigilance attention. This was still the case when the correlation was adjusted for type of caregiver training for the mother, child gender, socioeconomic status (SES), and quality of Home Observational Measurement Evaluation (HOME) environment-especially for the TOVA response time variability to signal ( p = .03). None of the ECVT attention performance measures correlated significantly with any of the KABC-II cognitive ability outcomes. Conclusion: Attention assessment in early childhood is predictive of school-age computer-based measures of attention and can be used to gauge the effects of factors of early risk and resilience in brain/behavior development in African children affected by HIV.

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Early Childhood Vigilance Test (ECVT) of attention in younger HIV-exposed Ugandan children predicts Tests of Variables of Attention (TOVA) at school age.

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Chhaya³

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Predictive validation of Ugandan infant eye-tracking test for memory of human faces

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Attention Test Assessment from a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial of Caregiver Training for Ugandan Preschool Children Living with Perinatal HIV

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Ozdemir,

Familiar-Lopez

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Attention Test Improvements from a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial of Caregiver Training for HIV-Exposed/Uninfected Ugandan Preschool Children

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Early Childhood Vigilance Test (ECVT) of attention in younger HIV-exposed Ugandan children predicts Tests of Variables of Attention (TOVA) at school age.

Early Childhood Vigilance Test (ECVT) of attention in younger HIV-exposed Ugandan children predicts Tests of Variables of Attention (TOVA) at school age.

Predictive validation of Ugandan infant eye-tracking test for memory of human faces

Attention Test Assessment from a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial of Caregiver Training for Ugandan Preschool Children Living with Perinatal HIV

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