Neurodevelopmental outcomes and predictors among late preterm infants: a 6-month prospective cohort study
Shrisruthi Suresh, Vadivelan Kanniappan, Sushmitha Kannairam · 2025
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Description
Shrisruthi Suresh and two co-authors follow sixty late preterm babies to compare how parents and therapists judge early development. Babies born at thirty-three to thirty-six weeks face delay risks that early screening can miss. The team screened infants with a standard checklist at discharge, then had parents and therapists score the same checklist apart at three and six months of corrected age.
At three months the two sets of scores matched closely. By six months they had split apart with a clear statistical difference. Rolling over and passing objects between hands strongly predicted overall scores for both raters at six months. The authors argue parents need coaching in watching development as babies grow. Without it, home observation may drift from trained judgment just as delays begin to show.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Shrisruthi Suresh, Vadivelan Kanniappan, Sushmitha Kannairam |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 30 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |