Early Childhood Stimulating Environment Predicts Later Childhood Resilience in an Indian Longitudinal Birth Cohort Study.
Beena KoshyManikandan SrinivasanSowmiya GopalakrishnanVenkata Raghava MohanRebecca ScharfSushil JohnRachel BeulahJayaprakash MuliyilGagandeep KangPublished in: Children (Basel, Switzerland) (2022)
Follow-up of an Indian birth cohort showed that in addition to concurrent cognitive abilities, childhood resilience was related to early childhood stimulating home environment. Promoting optimal stimulating home environments in low-resource settings to nurture holistic childhood development including mental health is essential.