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Health-related quality of life of children born very preterm : a multinational European cohort study
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SHIPS Research Group (Including: Kim, Sung Wook, Andronis, Lazaros, Seppanen, Anna-Veera, Aubert, Adrien M., Barros, Henrique, Draper, Elizabeth S., Sentenac, Mariane, Zeitlin, Jennifer and Petrou, Stavros). (2023) Health-related quality of life of children born very preterm : a multinational European cohort study. Quality of Life Research, 32 . pp. 47-58. doi:10.1007/s11136-022-03217-9 ISSN 0962-9343.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-022-03217-9
Abstract
Purpose
This study aims to (1) describe the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) outcomes experienced by children born very preterm (28–31 weeks’ gestation) and extremely preterm (< 28 weeks’ gestation) at five years of age and (2) explore the mediation effects of bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) and severe non-respiratory neonatal morbidity on those outcomes.
Methods
This investigation was based on data for 3687 children born at < 32 weeks’ gestation that contributed to the EPICE and SHIPS studies conducted in 19 regions across 11 European countries. Descriptive statistics and multi-level ordinary linear squares (OLS) regression were used to explore the association between perinatal and sociodemographic characteristics and PedsQL™ GCS scores. A mediation analysis that applied generalised structural equation modelling explored the association between potential mediators and PedsQL™ GCS scores.
Results
The multi-level OLS regression (fully adjusted model) revealed that birth at < 26 weeks’ gestation, BPD status and experience of severe non-respiratory morbidity were associated with mean decrements in the total PedsQL™ GCS score of 0.35, 3.71 and 5.87, respectively. The mediation analysis revealed that the indirect effects of BPD and severe non-respiratory morbidity on the total PedsQL™ GCS score translated into decrements of 1.73 and 17.56, respectively, at < 26 weeks’ gestation; 0.99 and 10.95, respectively, at 26–27 weeks’ gestation; and 0.34 and 4.80, respectively, at 28–29 weeks’ gestation (referent: birth at 30–31 weeks’ gestation).
Conclusion
The findings suggest that HRQoL is particularly impaired by extremely preterm birth and the concomitant complications of preterm birth such as BPD and severe non-respiratory morbidity.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||||
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Subjects: | R Medicine > RG Gynecology and obstetrics R Medicine > RJ Pediatrics |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School | ||||||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Premature labor -- Europe -- Research, Premature infants, Children -- Health and hygiene, Quality of life, Pediatrics -- Research | ||||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Quality of Life Research | ||||||||||||
Publisher: | Springer Netherlands | ||||||||||||
ISSN: | 0962-9343 | ||||||||||||
Official Date: | January 2023 | ||||||||||||
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Volume: | 32 | ||||||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 47-58 | ||||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1007/s11136-022-03217-9 | ||||||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 26 July 2022 | ||||||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 31 August 2022 | ||||||||||||
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