Effect of a developmental program on motor performance in infants born preterm.

A randomised controlled trial was conducted to evaluate the effect of a motor developmental program in improving motor performance in Thai infants born preterm. Eighty-four preterm born infants were randomly assigned to either a control or intervention group. Additionally, 27 low-risk preterm infant...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Publicado en:Australian Journal of Physiotherapy Vol. 47; no. 3; pp. 169 - 177
Autores principales: Lekskulchai R, Cole J
Formato: clinical trial research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Australian Physiotherapy Association 2001
Acceso en línea:Ver este registro en EBSCOhost
fields @attributes:
  recordID: 1
pdfLink:
plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=106919741&site=ehost-live
header:
  @attributes:
    shortDbName: ccm
    uiTerm: 106919741
    longDbName: CINAHL Complete
    uiTag: AN
  controlInfo:
    bkinfo:
    dissinfo:
    jinfo:
      jid:
        00049514
        GXX
      jtl: Australian Journal of Physiotherapy
      issn: 00049514
      maglogo: N
    pubinfo:
      dt: 2001
      vid: 47
      iid: 3
      pid: 12690
      pub: Australian Physiotherapy Association
    artinfo:
      ui:
        106919741
        106919741
        2002050693
        NLM11552873
        106919741
      ppf: 169
      ppct: 8
      formats:
      tig:
        atl: Effect of a developmental program on motor performance in infants born preterm.
      aug:
        au:
          Lekskulchai R
          Cole J
      sug:
        subj:
          Infant, Premature
          Psychomotor Performance In Infancy and Childhood
          Pediatric Physical Therapy
          Treatment Outcomes In Infancy and Childhood
          Thailand
          Random Assignment
          Intervention Trials
          Infant Development
          Skill Acquisition Evaluation
          Motor Skills Evaluation
          Infant, Newborn
          Infant
          Male
          Female
          Birth Weight Evaluation
          Gestational Age Evaluation
          Apgar Score
          Length of Stay In Infancy and Childhood
          Prospective Studies
          Unpaired T-Tests
          Clinical Assessment Tools
          Infant Behavior Evaluation
          Interviews
          Parents
          Intrarater Reliability
          Interrater Reliability
          Intraclass Correlation Coefficient
          Descriptive Statistics
          Rasch Analysis
          Analysis of Variance
          Repeated Measures
          One-Way Analysis of Variance
          Statistical Significance
          Human
          Infant, Newborn: birth-1 month
          Infant: 1-23 months
          Male
          Female
      ab: A randomised controlled trial was conducted to evaluate the effect of a motor developmental program in improving motor performance in Thai infants born preterm. Eighty-four preterm born infants were randomly assigned to either a control or intervention group. Additionally, 27 low-risk preterm infants were included forming a comparative group for this study. From term equivalent age to four months adjusted age, all infants had their motor performance assessed monthly with the Test of Infant Motor Performance by one of the physiotherapist research assistants blind to group assignment and infants' adjusted age. In addition, the intervention infants received a developmental program at each monthly visit. Motor performance for each group plotted against age revealed linear trends of progression. The intervention group showed the greatest improvement. Two-way repeated measures ANOVA revealed significant differences across age and among groups. Scheffé comparisons indicated that the mean differences between each pair of the three groups were significant and supported the finding of greater improvement of the intervention infants over the control group. Thus the results suggest that the intervention program is likely to have beneficial effects when offered to a similar population of preterm born infants.
      pubtype: Academic Journal
      doctype:
        clinical trial
        research
        tables/charts
        Journal Article
      ougenre: Article
    language: English
    refInfo:
    holdings:
      @attributes:
        islocal: N