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Assessment and Evaluation of the High Risk Neonate: The NICU Network Neurobehavioral Scale
Published on: August 25, 2014
Quality of life of adolescents born with extremely low birth weight
Hólmdís Freyja Methúsalemsdóttir1, Snaefríður Þóra Egilson, Ragnhildur Guðmundsdóttir
1The SLF's Rehabilitation Center, Reykjavik, Iceland.
Aim:
To explore extremely low birth weight [ELBW] adolescents' self-reported quality of life [QoL] and compare it with control group of same age full-term peers.
Methods:
This project is nested within a national follow-up study on the long-term outcome of ELBW infants born in Iceland in 1991-1995. Twenty-nine ELBW adolescents and 30 controls evaluated their QoL using KIDSCREEN-52. To evaluate group differences, Chi-square tests and Mann-Whitney U-tests were conducted. Multivariate logistic regression was used to determine the influence of birth weight on QoL in ten dimensions.
Results:
No differences were observed between the groups on six of ten KIDSCREEN dimensions. ELBW adolescents reported significantly lower QoL on four dimensions: Physical well-being (OR 3.41; CI, 1.14-10.25), Psychological well-being (OR 7.65; CI, 2.04-28.78), Moods and emotion (OR 5.20; CI, 1.53-17.82), and Self-perception (OR 3.20; CI, 1.05-9.74).
Conclusion:
ELBW adolescents report similar social well-being and participation compared with same age full-term peers. Conversely, they report lower physical and emotional quality of life.
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