CONTROLLED STUDY OF INTELLIGENCE AND SCHOOL PERFORMANCE OF VERY LOW‐BIRTHWEIGHT CHILDREN FROM A DEFINED GEOGRAPHICAL AREA
- 1 February 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology
- Vol. 30 (1), 36-42
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8749.1988.tb04724.x
Abstract
SUMMARY: The authors studied the intellectual outcome of 45 of the 47 schoolchildren who had been born with very low birthweights (< 1501g) in Wolverhampton between 1975 and 1978 and were free of major handicap. Their outcome was compared with that of a control group matched for age, sex, race and social class. The very low‐birthweight children had lower IQs, were more likely to be performing poorly or below average at school and were more likely to show emotional disturbance. Those who had had a major neonatal illness were most likely to be performing below average at school. These results may be representative of the outcome for very low‐birthweight babies born in the United Kingdom during the late 1970s.RÉSUMÉ: Etude contrôlé de l'intelligence et des performances scolaires des enfants de très faible poids de naissance dans une aire géographique définieLes auteurs ont étudié, le devenir intellectuel de 45 parmi les 47 écoliers nés avec un trés faible poids de naissance (moins de 1501g) mais sans handicap majeur, à Wolverhampton entre 1975 et 1978.Leur devenir a été comparé avec celui d'un groupe contrôle apparié pour l'âge, le sexe, la race et la classe sociale. Les enfants de très faible poids de naissance avaient un QI plus bas, avaient plus de chances de performances médiocres ou au‐dessous de la moyenne à l'école et plus de chances de montrer des perturbations émotives. Ceux des enfants qui avaient présenté une maladie néonatale majeure avaient plus de chances de se situer au‐dessous de la moyenne à l'école. Les auteurs suggèrent que ces résultats peuvent être représentatifs du devenir des nourrissons de trés faible poids de naissance nés au Royaume Uni durant les dernières années 1970.This publication has 18 references indexed in Scilit:
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