TY - JOUR
T1 - Vocal brain development in infants of mothers with serious mental illness (CAPRI-Voc)
T2 - study protocol
AU - Stibbs-Eaton, Lucy
AU - Hodgson, Catherine
AU - Kolade, Adekeye
AU - Crowell, Jennifer
AU - Gemignani, Jessica
AU - Hope, Holly
AU - Pierce, Matthias
AU - Elmadih, Alya
AU - Zhao, Chen
AU - Downey, Darragh
AU - Elliott, Rebecca
AU - Abel, Kathryn M
N1 - Funding Information:
This study is a novel longitudinal infant brain imaging study to assess whether fNIRS can locate a neuro-biomarker of early language development in children at high and low risk of cognitive impairment. The study is taking place across the UK, and based in Greater Manchester. The research is funded by the European Research Council (ERC, 682741), and approved by North West–Greater Manchester West Research Ethics Committee (17/NW/0074). The current protocol version is 2.0 (05/07/2021).
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PY - 2022/3/17
Y1 - 2022/3/17
N2 - INTRODUCTION: Improving the lives of children and adolescents with parental mental illness (CAPRI) remains an urgent political and public health concern for the UK and European Union. Recurrent parental mental illness is believed to lead to fractures in the family, academic and social lives of these children, yet interventions are poorly targeted and non-specific. Part of an interdisciplinary programme of work (the CAPRI Programme; grant number: 682741), CAPRI-Voc aims to achieve two goals: first, to test the feasibility of our longitudinal imaging paradigm in mother-infant pairs where the mother has a diagnosis of severe mental illness. Second, to compare development of vocal processing in these infants with infants in the general population.METHODS AND ANALYSIS: Recruitment of 100 infants of mothers with mental illness, alongside 50 infants of healthy mothers. Both cohorts of infants will undergo functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) brain imaging at three time points: 9, 12 and 18 months to explore differences between cohorts in their neural responses to vocal stimuli in our language paradigm. Mothers will complete an interview and psychological questionnaires. We shall also complete an infant developmental battery and mother-child interaction play session. Data on recruitment, retention and dropout will be recorded.ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION: It will be made clear that fNIRS is a safe, non-invasive technology widely used in infant clinical and psychological research. We shall reassure mothers that no definitive causal link exists between maternal mental illness and language development in infants, and that individual data will only exist as part of the wider dataset. As the study includes both children and vulnerable adults, all research staff will complete National Health Service (NHS) Safeguarding level 3 training. Dissemination will be via direct feedback to stakeholders, patient and advisory groups, and through presentations at conferences, journal publications and university/NHS trust communications. The study was approved through North West-Greater Manchester West Research Ethics Committee (17/NW/0074) and Health Research Authority (212715).
AB - INTRODUCTION: Improving the lives of children and adolescents with parental mental illness (CAPRI) remains an urgent political and public health concern for the UK and European Union. Recurrent parental mental illness is believed to lead to fractures in the family, academic and social lives of these children, yet interventions are poorly targeted and non-specific. Part of an interdisciplinary programme of work (the CAPRI Programme; grant number: 682741), CAPRI-Voc aims to achieve two goals: first, to test the feasibility of our longitudinal imaging paradigm in mother-infant pairs where the mother has a diagnosis of severe mental illness. Second, to compare development of vocal processing in these infants with infants in the general population.METHODS AND ANALYSIS: Recruitment of 100 infants of mothers with mental illness, alongside 50 infants of healthy mothers. Both cohorts of infants will undergo functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) brain imaging at three time points: 9, 12 and 18 months to explore differences between cohorts in their neural responses to vocal stimuli in our language paradigm. Mothers will complete an interview and psychological questionnaires. We shall also complete an infant developmental battery and mother-child interaction play session. Data on recruitment, retention and dropout will be recorded.ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION: It will be made clear that fNIRS is a safe, non-invasive technology widely used in infant clinical and psychological research. We shall reassure mothers that no definitive causal link exists between maternal mental illness and language development in infants, and that individual data will only exist as part of the wider dataset. As the study includes both children and vulnerable adults, all research staff will complete National Health Service (NHS) Safeguarding level 3 training. Dissemination will be via direct feedback to stakeholders, patient and advisory groups, and through presentations at conferences, journal publications and university/NHS trust communications. The study was approved through North West-Greater Manchester West Research Ethics Committee (17/NW/0074) and Health Research Authority (212715).
KW - Adult psychiatry
KW - Developmental neurology & neurodisability
KW - RADIOLOGY & IMAGING
U2 - 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-053598
DO - 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-053598
M3 - Article
C2 - 35301204
SN - 2044-6055
VL - 12
JO - BMJ Open
JF - BMJ Open
IS - 3
M1 - e053598
ER -