Attention problems in relation to gestational age at birth and smallness for gestational age

Eryigit-Madzwamuse, Suna; Wolke, Dieter

doi:10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2015.01.004

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“…Nonetheless, many studies of SGA among VPT infants continue to use birthweight references . This is probably explained by the availability of national birthweight references in most countries, whereas, with some exceptions , national intra‐uterine references are lacking.…”

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Variation in term birthweight across European countries affects the prevalence of small for gestational age among very preterm infants

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Variation in term birthweight across European countries affects the prevalence of small for gestational age among very preterm infants

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“…Mean values and frequencies for descriptive characteristics were calculated by gestational age group using SPSS v.24 (Chicago, IL). Gestational age was scaled to a quadratic effect in the path model, based on previous literature (Eryigit‐Madzwamuse & Wolke, ; Jaekel et al, ). Path analyses were performed using AMOS v.24 to test the direct and indirect effects of gestational age, parent–infant relationship quality, inhibitory control at 20 months, and social inhibition at 6 years on Friendships z ‐score at 8 years of age.…”

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Developmental cascades of social inhibition and friendships in preterm and full‐term children

Reyes

Jaekel

Heuser

et al. 2019

Infant and Child Development

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Friendships are crucial to children's socioemotional development and quality of life. Children born preterm (<37 weeks gestation) have an increased risk for social relationship difficulties, including fewer friends, but the mechanisms underlying the link between lower gestational age and fewer friendships are not clear. The prospective Bavarian Longitudinal Study investigated potential cascading effects on N = 1,181 children's friendships at 8 years. Path modelling indicated that higher gestational age predicted good early parent–infant relationship quality, good inhibitory control, and higher friendship scores. Good parent–infant relationship quality predicted good inhibitory control, which subsequently predicted low social inhibition at 6 years and higher friendship scores at 8 years. There is evidence of cascading effects from gestational age to early parent–infant relationships, to toddlers' inhibitory control, and to social inhibition, which partially explain differences in children's friendships at 8 years of age. Highlights Preterm children are at risk for social problems and fewer friends, but the mechanisms underlying this risk are not known. Path modelling showed that gestational age predicted good early parent–infant relationship and inhibitory control, which subsequently predicted low social inhibition and higher friendship scores. Cascading effects from gestational age to parent–infant relationships, to inhibitory control, and to social inhibition partially explain differences in friendships at 8 years.

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“…The ACT meets this need for early interventions, targets key skills that are related to the development of cognitive flexibility and Executive Functions, and does so at an age whereby attention control abilities are just emerging and may thus be particularly plastic and amenable to change [73]. The delivery of the ACT to infants born VP may be particularly apposite because VP infants are known to be at risk of deficits in control of attention [2,23,64], EFs [45], cognitive and intellectual abilities [15,16]. Researchers recognise that there are wide individual differences in the developmental trajectories of VP infants, and many studies have also highlighted the resilience of many VP infants exposed to aversive events such as long stays in the NICU, and exposure to painful procedures [22,24,54,70].…”

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“…In particular, newborns born very premature (VP), i.e. those born between 28 and less than 32 weeks gestation age, are at increased risk of significant intellectual deficits [8,16,30,33,40,45,60], learning difficulties [2,39], attention problems [2,23,64], problem behaviours [6,12,19,42], and developmental disorders such as attention deficit with hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) [13,14,26,28,46].…”

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Training attention control of very preterm infants: protocol for a feasibility study of the Attention Control Training (ACT)

Perra

Wass

McNulty³

et al. 2020

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Background: Children born preterm may display cognitive, learning, and behaviour difficulties as they grow up. In particular, very premature birth (gestation age between 28 and less than 32 weeks) may put infants at increased risk of intellectual deficits and attention deficit disorder. Evidence suggests that the basis of these problems may lie in difficulties in the development of executive functions. One of the earliest executive functions to emerge around 1 year of age is the ability to control attention. An eye-tracking-based cognitive training programme to support this emerging ability, the Attention Control Training (ACT), has been developed and tested with typically developing infants. The aim of this study is to investigate the feasibility of using the ACT with healthy very preterm (VP) infants when they are 12 months of age (corrected age). The ACT has the potential to address the need for supporting emerging cognitive abilities of VP infants with an early intervention, which may capitalise on infants' neural plasticity. Methods/design: The feasibility study is designed to investigate whether it is possible to recruit and retain VP infants and their families in a randomised trial that compares attention and social attention of trained infants against those that are exposed to a control procedure. Feasibility issues include the referral/recruitment pathway, attendance, and engagement with testing and training sessions, completion of tasks, retention in the study, acceptability of outcome measures, quality of data collected (particularly, eye-tracking data). The results of the study will inform the development of a larger randomised trial.Discussion: Several lines of evidence emphasise the need to support emerging cognitive and learning abilities of preterm infants using early interventions. However, early interventions with preterm infants, and particularly very preterm ones, face difficulties in recruiting and retaining participants. These problems are also augmented by the health vulnerability of this population. This feasibility study will provide the basis for informing the implementation of an early cognitive intervention for very preterm infants. Trial registration: Registered Registration ID: NCT03896490. Retrospectively registered at Clinical Trials Protocol Registration and Results System (clinicaltrials.gov).

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Attention problems in relation to gestational age at birth and smallness for gestational age

Cited by 17 publications

References 39 publications

Variation in term birthweight across European countries affects the prevalence of small for gestational age among very preterm infants

Variation in term birthweight across European countries affects the prevalence of small for gestational age among very preterm infants

Developmental cascades of social inhibition and friendships in preterm and full‐term children

Training attention control of very preterm infants: protocol for a feasibility study of the Attention Control Training (ACT)

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