The Gesell developmental schedule in hispanic low-birth weight infants during the first year of life |
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| Institution: | 1. Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States;2. Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong;3. University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada;1. Fordham University, United States;2. Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, United States;3. University of Utah, United States;4. Rhode Island Hospital, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, United States;5. Butler Hospital, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, United States;6. ICAP at Columbia University, United States;7. Mindful Living, United States;8. Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, United States;9. Weight Control and Diabetes Research Center, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, United States;10. University of Texas at Austin, United States;1. University of Kansas, Department of Psychology, 1415 Jayhawk Blvd, Lawrence, KS, 66044, United States;2. University of Tennessee, Department of Psychology, 1404 Circle Drive, Knoxville, TN, 37916, United States;1. Paediatric Neurology Unit, Catholic University and Centro Clinico Nemo, Rome, Italy;2. Department of Neurology, Boston Children''s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA;3. Department of Neurology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, USA;4. Department of Physical Therapy, The Children''s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, USA;5. Institute of Genetics, Catholic University, Rome, Italy;6. Dubowitz Neuromuscular Centre, UCL Institute of Child Health & Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK;7. Nemours Children''s Hospital, University of Central Florida College of Medicine, Orlando, USA |
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| Abstract: | The Gesell Schedule was administered to 143 low birthweight, high-risk, Hispanic infants of low-socioeconomic status to determine if this test was appropriate for this population. All but 5 were preterms, 73 females, 70 males. The infants were evaluated at 20 and 40 weeks corrected chronological age (CCA). The Gesell appears to be a useful developmental test for this population. Values for the overall developmental quotient (DQ) did not deviate from the Gesell norms, despite the infants' relatively poor growth pattern. Slight deviations from the norm in gross motor, fine motor, and language subscales were observed at 40 weeks CCA. Repeated measure analyses of variance revealed a significant decline in overall developmental, language, and fine motor quotients from 20 to 40 weeks. Birth-weight (BW) and small-for-gestational-age (SGA) categories influenced the outcome. |
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