Author:

• Larissa Fortunato Araújo - Araújo, L. F. - <larissafortunatoaraujo@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6695-0365

Co-author(s):

• Eduardo Faerstein - Faerstein, E. - <eduardof@uerj.br, efaerstein@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4027-4896

Abstract:

To investigate the associations of adverse psychosocial exposures in childhood with declarative memory, language, and executive function in adults free of dementia with high school degree or more. In 361 participants of the Pró-Saúde Study we estimated associations of maternal educational attainment, principal financial family support, food insecurity, and childhood family structure with the performance in learning and word recall, semantic and phonemic verbal fluency test using multiple linear regression models. Having had the mother as principal financial family support (mean difference: -1.97, 95% CI: -3.27; -0.72) and having lived only with her (mean difference: -1.62, 95% CI: -2.89; -0.35) or another person/institutionalized (mean difference: -2.19, 95% CI: -4.29; -0.09) at the childhood remained associated with poor language and memory in adulthood. Our findings add more evidence about the effect of exposures in childhood which without appropriate interventions, is likely to have far reaching legacies on cognition.

Keywords:

Pró-Saúde Study; cognitive function, early adversities

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