Visuospatial functions in preterm schoolchildren without cognitive delay: Using Pascual's Graphomotor test as a screening method
| Autor: | Samuel I. Pascual-Pascual, María Concepción Miranda-Herrero, Almudena Chacón-Pascual, Pedro Castro de Castro, E. Barredo-Valderrama, M Vázquez-López |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Multivariate analysis media_common.quotation_subject Intelligence Gestational Age Neurological examination Audiology Cognition Humans Medicine Child Language media_common Intelligence Tests medicine.diagnostic_test Intelligence quotient business.industry Cognitive delay Infant Newborn Infant Obstetrics and Gynecology Gestational age Executive functions Test (assessment) Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Aptitude business |
| Zdroj: | Early Human Development. 161:105454 |
| ISSN: | 0378-3782 |
| Popis: | Background Preterm children obtain worse scores in tests that evaluate visuospatial functions. Pascual's graphomotor test (PGMt) assesses maturity in copying drawings in childhood, quickly evaluating the graphomotor aptitude that is a partial aspect of non-verbal intelligence. Aims To evaluate visuospatial functions in preterm children compared to full-term children. To assess the capacity of the Pascual graphomotor test (PGMt) to detect visuospatial disorders more specifically than non-verbal intelligence quotient (IQ). Study design and subjects: case and control study. Cases: preterm children between 5 and 11 years of age without cognitive delay; controls: full-term children with the same characteristics. For each child clinical history, neurological examination, language-free intelligence test Toni 2 (IQ) and Pascual's graphomotor test (PGMt) were carried out. Results 135 children were enrolled (59 cases vs. 79 controls). The mean age was 7.4 years. 55% were male. The mean gestational age of cases was 30.5 weeks with 34% extremely preterm. Cases obtained worse mean scores in both tests. The mean IQ scores were: cases 117.4, controls 125.0 (p = 0.004). The mean graphomotor quotient (GQ) scores were statistically and clinically significant (cases 76.8; controls 98.3, p = 0.001). Although we have found a positive correlation between IQ and GQ scores (cc = 0.31 p = 0.01), the differences found in the GQ between groups have been maintained regardless of the IQ in the multivariate analysis (GQ: cases 78.3 (SD 14.8), controls 98.3 (SD 12.5), p = 0.04). Conclusions GQ is a useful tool for screening for visuospatial anomalies. GQ more specifically measures the visuoperceptive disorder regardless of non-verbal cognitive level. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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