We analyzed all children born in Sweden between 1983 and 2009 to investigate the effect of SDP on multiple
indicators of adverse outcomes in three areas: pregnancy outcomes (birth weight, preterm birth and being born small for gestational age), long - term cognitive abilities (low academic achievement and general cognitive ability) and externalizing behaviors (criminal conviction, violent criminal conviction and drug misuse).
In addition, they propose a unique solution, one more akin to the types
of strategies used by thoughtful clinicians — namely, children in need might be best identified not only through the presence
of early behavioural signs and symptoms but also through the convergence
of other
indicators, such as well established risk factors for
adverse outcomes independent from the behavioural
indicators themselves (eg, single parent status, family poverty, neuropsychological functioning, etc).
We chose to use characteristics used for sample recruitment as
indicators of long - term stress (eg, coming from a low - SES household) and having few personal resources (eg, being unmarried), 2 factors associated with a host
of adverse outcomes.