Unwanted infants: psychological and physical consequences of inadequate orphanage care 50 years later.
Studies of the effects in middle-aged adults of institutionalization at birth or early childhood are rare. The results of this study show that members of a randomly selected, middle-aged group of orphans, most of whom were institutionalized at birth, were significantly more psychosocially dysfunctional and had significantly more chronic illnesses that could be stress related than a randomly selected, matched community sample.
Sigal
John J
JJ
Sir Mortimer B. Davis-Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Perry
J Christopher
JC
Rossignol
Michel
M
Ouimet
Marie Claude
MC
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002908:Chronic Disease; D015331:Cohort Studies; D005260:Female; D005581:Foster Home Care / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007326:Institutionalization; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D008603:Mental Health; D008875:Middle Aged; D011897:Random Allocation; D013315:Stress, Psychological