Effects of the Newborn Individualized Developmental Care and Assessment Program (NIDCAP) at Age 8 Years: Preliminary Data
| Autor: | Samantha C. Butler, Jane Holmes Bernstein, Frank H. Duffy, David Zurakowski, Heidelise Als, Gloria B. McAnulty |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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Pediatrics medicine.medical_specialty Time Factors Child Behavior Gestational Age Neuropsychological Tests Electroencephalography Article law.invention Child Development Randomized controlled trial law Intensive care Developmental care Humans Medicine Child medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Health Plan Implementation Infant Newborn Postmenstrual Age Brain Gestational age Neuropsychological battery Frontal Lobe Treatment Outcome Massachusetts Frontal lobe Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Intensive Care Neonatal Female business Infant Premature Psychomotor Performance Follow-Up Studies Program Evaluation |
| Zdroj: | Clinical Pediatrics. 49:258-270 |
| ISSN: | 1938-2707 0009-9228 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0009922809335668 |
| Popis: | The current study reports the effects of NIDCAP (Newborn Individualized Developmental Care and Assessment Program) at 8 years of age for a randomized controlled trial of 38 very early born (≤29 weeks postmenstrual age), high-risk preterm infants. It was hypothesized that the experimental group at school age in comparison with the control group would perform significantly better neuropsychologically and neuroelectrophysiologically. Twenty-two (11 control, 11 experimental) children of the original 38 (18 control, 20 experimental) participants were studied at school age with a detailed neuropsychological battery and with EEG spectral coherence measures. Results indicated significantly better right hemisphere and frontal lobe function in the experimental group than the control group, both neuropsychologically and neurophysiologically. Neurobehavioral and physiological results in the newborn period successfully predicted the beneficial brain function effects at age 8 years. Results support the conclusion that the NIDCAP intervention has lasting effects into school age. |
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