Early Childhood Attention Battery in Preterm Children

Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS200 enrolled

Overview

The aims of this project are: 1. To explore, using the ECAB, if and in which measure the attentional abilities of young preterm children are different from term peers, whom reference data are already published27. 2. To correlate the ECAB results with the "Conner's Teacher, Rating Scale- Revised e Conner's Parent Rating Scale", one of the available diagnostic interview that helps to identify signs of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in young children, at the age of 6 years and over. 3. To study individual trajectories of attention pattern and development during age.

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

200

Conditions

Attention-deficit Prematurity

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 42 MonthsMax age: 59 Months

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * gestational age (GA) \<34 weeks, intellectual functioning with Intelligence Quotient (IQ\>70 verified with Wechsler scales performed within 6 months from the ECAB, age at ECAB assessment between 3 years and 5 years 11 months. Exclusion Criteria: * presence of major brain lesions, major motor or behavioral disorders, WPPSI-III subtest receptive vocabulary with a scaled score \<8.

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Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

attentional abilities of young preterm children

The Early Childhood Attention Battery (ECAB) consists of 8 subtest assessing 3 aspects of attention: selective attention, sustained attention, attentional control. Counting the number of correct answer we get a raw scores (with a different range for each task) that can be translated in a pondered score and in a percentile based on normative data collected on term born children and previously published

Time frame: 3 years