TY - JOUR
T1 - Perinatal risk factors for neurocognitive impairments in preschool very preterm children
AU - Potharst, E.S.
AU - van Wassenaer, A.G.
AU - Houtzager, B.A.
AU - Kok, J.H.
AU - Last, P.F.
AU - Oosterlaan, J.
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Aim This study aimed to compare a broad array of neurocognitive functions (processing speed, aspects of attention, executive functioning, visual-motor coordination, and both face and emotion recognition) in very preterm and term-born children and to identify perinatal risk factors for neurocognitive dysfunctions. Method Children who were born very preterm (n=102; 46 males, 56 females), defined as a gestational age of less than 30weeks and/or birthweight under 1000g, and a comparison group of term-born children (n=95; 40 males, 55 females) were assessed at age 5 with the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence, Stop Signal Task, several tasks of the Amsterdam Neuropsychological Tasks, and a Digit Span task. Results When sociodemographic characteristics were taken into account, very preterm children scored worse than term-born children on all neurocognitive functions, except on tasks measuring inhibition and sustained attention, for which results were inconclusive. Effect sizes for group effects were small to medium (r
AB - Aim This study aimed to compare a broad array of neurocognitive functions (processing speed, aspects of attention, executive functioning, visual-motor coordination, and both face and emotion recognition) in very preterm and term-born children and to identify perinatal risk factors for neurocognitive dysfunctions. Method Children who were born very preterm (n=102; 46 males, 56 females), defined as a gestational age of less than 30weeks and/or birthweight under 1000g, and a comparison group of term-born children (n=95; 40 males, 55 females) were assessed at age 5 with the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence, Stop Signal Task, several tasks of the Amsterdam Neuropsychological Tasks, and a Digit Span task. Results When sociodemographic characteristics were taken into account, very preterm children scored worse than term-born children on all neurocognitive functions, except on tasks measuring inhibition and sustained attention, for which results were inconclusive. Effect sizes for group effects were small to medium (r
U2 - 10.1111/dmcn.12018
DO - 10.1111/dmcn.12018
M3 - Article
SN - 0012-1622
VL - 55
SP - 178
EP - 184
JO - Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology
JF - Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology
IS - 2
ER -