# THE NICHD STUDY OF EARLY CHILD CARE

> **NIH NIH U10** · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · 1994 · $702,088

## Abstract

In keeping with the aims of NICHD-RFA (88-HD-08), "Effects of Non-Parental
Infant Day Care on Child Development," the proposed study is an attempt to
assess and evaluate the effects of infant day care on children's
emotional, social, and cognitive development.  It follows the
psychological and physical progress of 150 children from birth to 3 1/2
years, taking into account and weighing the relative contributions to that
progress of the children's constitutional characteristics, their family
contexts, and their day-care experiences.  It attempts to identify the
conditions under which maternal employment in the first year of an
infant's life helps or hinders the infant's development.  To do so, it
draws on a wide range of assessment methods and measures, including
observations at home and in the day-care setting, interviews and
questionnaires given to the mothers, fathers and other caregivers, and
standard assessments of the children's behavior in semi-structured
laboratory situations.  In addition, children and their parents are
observed and interviewed by trained clinical practitioners.  The study
also relies on multivariate statistical analyses and the unique advantage
of a national collaborative sample.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 2199582
- **Project number:** 5U10HD025456-05
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE
- **SAM.gov UEI:** MJC5FCYQTPE6
- **Principal Investigator:** K ALISON CLARKE-STEWART
- **Activity code:** U10 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 1994
- **Award amount:** $702,088
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1990-01-24 → 1995-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/2199582

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 2199582, THE NICHD STUDY OF EARLY CHILD CARE (5U10HD025456-05). Retrieved via MORVS 2026-10-25 from https://api.morvs.ai/grant/nih/2199582. Licensed CC0.

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