The research of motor development of premature infants in an outpatient-polyclinic service

Abstract

The article is devoted to the research of the development of motor skills of premature babies on the background of medical rehabilitation in an outpatient-polyclinic and the determination of the age standard (scale) for the development of motor skills of premature babies. The research includes 137 premature babies with the gestational age from 26 to 37 weeks, birth weight from 800 to 2600 grams. The main group of the research consisted of 117 premature babies who had already took a part in the early and complex rehabilitation, the control group which consisted 20 children who were included in the research because of a history of prematurity and who applied to the rehabilitation department with already established disabilities (the health status of premature babies in the control group was studied retrospectively). Premature babies in the control group began medical rehabilitation after 6 or more months of life and did not receive it in full. The assessment of the motor skills of premature babies was carried out in dynamics on the monthly basis. Of the 117 premature babies of the main group 2.5% had motor disorders that led to disability, the premature babies of the control group reached disability in 100% of cases. The research of motor development of premature babies revealed that with a delay in applying for medical rehabilitation, even for one day, the integrated indicator of the relative deviation of actual skills development from the standard increases by 0.9%.