Longitudinal follow-up of children born preterm: cognitive development at age 19

Tideman, Eva

doi:10.1016/s0378-3782(00)00055-4

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“…Several studies have shown that VPT/VLBW adults still exhibit impairment in EF compared with term-born adults [6,41], supporting the deficit hypothesis. However, VPT/VLBW adults were born at times when there was a different standard of neonatal care.…”

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confidence: 80%

“…In the case of a deficit, the performance level of both young and old VPT/VLBW children would continuously remain below that of same-aged controls. Some studies have reported that preterm-born children catch-up in cognitive performance over time [31,41], whereas other studies have observed stable deficits [20] or even an accentuation of problems with increasing age [40]. To our knowledge, no evidence of catch-up has yet been described regarding executive functions (EF).…”

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confidence: 93%

“…Maternal socioeconomic status (SES) has been suggested to have a greater impact on cognitive outcome of pretermborn children than paternal SES [28,41]. Maternal SES was defined as the mother's education level at the time of the neuropsychological assessment (no graduation01, college0 2, college of higher education03, and university degree04).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…For that reason, shifting is suggested to be more complex than inhibition and WM [5]. Some studies have reported deficiencies in shifting of younger [8,15,39] and older VPT/VLBW children [4,40], as well as young VPT/VLBW adults [41]. In other studies, equal performance levels of shifting have been found in VPT/ VLBW and control children [37].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Executive functions of children born very preterm—deficit or delay?

et al. 2012

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This cross-sectional study examined the performance of children born very preterm and/or at very low birth weight (VPT/VLBW) and same-aged term-born controls in three core executive functions: inhibition, working memory, and shifting. Children were divided into two age groups according to the median (young, 8.00-9.86 years; old, 9.87-12.99 years). The aims of the study were to investigate whether (a) VPT/VLBW children of both age groups performed poorer than controls (deficit hypothesis) or caught up with increasing age (delay hypothesis) and (b) whether VPT/ VLBW children displayed a similar pattern of performance increase in executive functions with advancing age compared with the controls. Fifty-six VPT/VLBW children born in the cohort of 1998-2003 and 41 healthy-term-born controls were recruited. All children completed tests of inhibition (ColorWord Interference Task, Delis-Kaplan Executive Function System (D-KEFS)), working memory (Digit Span Backwards, HAWIK-IV), and shifting (Trail Making Test, Number-Letter Sequencing, D-KEFS). Results revealed that young VPT/VLBW children performed significantly poorer than the young controls in inhibition, working memory, and shifting, whereas old VPT/VLBW children performed similar to the old controls across all three executive functions. Furthermore, the frequencies of impairment in inhibition, working memory and shifting were higher in the young VPT/ VLBW group compared with the young control group, whereas frequencies of impairment were equal in the old groups. In both VPT/VLBW children and controls, the highest increase in executive performance across the ages of 8 to 12 years was observed in shifting, followed by working memory, and inhibition. Conclusions: This study provides evidence that (a) poor performance in inhibition, working memory, and shifting of young VPT/VLBW children might reflect a delay rather than a deficit and (b) that VPT/VLBW children are likely to display a similar pattern of performance increase in these three executive functions compared with that of controls.

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confidence: 80%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 93%

Section: Assessmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…No significant differences between the preterm and the full-term groups were found on any of the test results (Tideman, 2000).…”

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confidence: 71%

Longitudinal follow-up of children born preterm: The mother-child relationship in a 19-year perspective

Tideman¹,

Smith²,

Nilsson³

et al. 2002

Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology

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In this longitudinal prospective study, two groups of children, preterms and fullterms, were followed up regarding the mother± child relationship at 9 and 19 years of age. Information was obtained from both the children and their mothers. A self-report scale was utilized for the assessment of the conscious attachment model, and percept-genetic tests displaying pictorial mother± child themes were utilized as a method of evaluating the unconscious attachment model. A questionnaire was used to measure the degree of expressed emotion in the mother± child relationship. Percept-genetic tests showed that at 9 years of age, the preterm children and their mothers differed significantly from the full-terms in their reports of the mother± child theme, and that at age 19, the preterms differed significantly from the full-terms in their perceptions of the attachment and separation themes. A greater degree of expressed emotion was found among the preterm mother± child dyads. The results indicate that preterm children may harbour emotional vulnerability regarding attachment and separation as young adults.

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