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Risk for later school problems in preterm children who do not cooperate for preschool developmental testing
1Department of Pediatrics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
Objective:
To determine whether preterm children born at
Study Design:
The McCarthy Scales of Children's Abilities were administered to a cohort of 118 preterm children at 3(1/2) to 4(1/2) years old when they were seen in the neonatal follow-up clinic. When these children were 7 to 10 years old, their parents completed the Child Behavior Checklist, and the child's teacher completed the Teacher's Report Form.
Results:
Parents returned questionnaires on 105 (89%) children. On the Teacher's Report Form, children who were untestable had more somatic complications and more attention problems and scored higher on the Total Problems Scale and the Internalizing Scale than children who had completed testing. Children who were untestable were twice as likely to receive help in school than were children who completed developmental testing.
Conclusions:
Preterm children born at