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Baumann, Nicole, Tresilian, James and Wolke, Dieter (2020) Effects of infant motor problems and treatment with physiotherapy on child outcomes at school-age. Early Human Development, 149 . 105140. doi:10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2020.105140 ISSN 0378-3782 .
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2020.105140
Abstract
Background:
Early motor coordination problems have previously been associated with various developmental outcomes at school-age.
Aims:
Investigate whether and how treatment with physiotherapy may alter associations between early motor problems and subsequent developmental outcomes.
Study design:
A prospective whole-population study.
Subjects:
1374 children were followed from birth to 8 years.
Outcome measures:
Early motor functioning was determined with standard neurological examinations at birth and at 5 months. Information on receipt of physiotherapy was collected through parent interviews at 5, 20 and 56 months. Developmental outcomes at 6 and 8 years included motor skills, mental health, cognitive function, and attention regulation and were determined through standard tests, parent reports and observed behavior ratings.
Results:
Early motor problems were associated with lower motor skills, cognitive function, and attention regulation at school-age, but not with mental health. In addition to early motor problems, receipt of physiotherapy was independently and negatively related to outcomes at school-age. Accounting for imbalances in covariates, including initial motor scores, via propensity score matching attenuated the adverse effects of receipt of physiotherapy on school-aged outcomes.
Conclusions:
Infant motor problems are associated with motor and cognitive outcomes at school-age. Early motor problems may represent a starting point of a trajectory of difficulties that may lead to a higher risk of problems in multiple developmental domains. No evidence for a beneficial effect of treatment with physiotherapy was found.
Item Type: | Journal Article | |||||||||||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology | |||||||||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences > Mental Health and Wellbeing Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Motor ability in children, Child development, Learning disabled children, Children with disabilities -- Development, Children with mental disabilities -- Psychological testing | |||||||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Early Human Development | |||||||||||||||
Publisher: | Elsevier Ireland Ltd | |||||||||||||||
ISSN: | 0378-3782 | |||||||||||||||
Official Date: | October 2020 | |||||||||||||||
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Volume: | 149 | |||||||||||||||
Article Number: | 105140 | |||||||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2020.105140 | |||||||||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | |||||||||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | |||||||||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | |||||||||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 6 August 2020 | |||||||||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 22 July 2021 | |||||||||||||||
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