Background: To analyze the relationship of child behavioral and communication disorders, and adverse family events, to later-in-life child health and cognitive function among youth born extremely preterm.
Methods: The study participants were 694 children enrolled in the Extremely Low Gestational Age Newborn Study. At ages 2 and 10, we assessed internalizing and externalizing behaviors, and at age 10, we assessed adverse life events within the family. Associations were evaluated between these child and family factors and positive child health at age 10 years, and global health and cognitive function at age 15 years.
Results: Lower T-scores for internalizing or externalizing behaviors at age 2 were associated with more positive health at age 10. The absence of internalizing behaviors at age 10 was associated with better global child health and better cognitive function at age 15. The absence of communication deficits at age 10 was associated with better cognitive function at age 15. The absence of parent job loss was associated with better global child health at age 15.
Conclusion: Among individuals born extremely preterm, child health and cognitive outcomes might be improved by timely interventions to address child behavioral symptoms and the impact of adverse life events in the family.
Impact: The absence of child behavioral and communication disorders, and adverse family events, were associated with more positive health, higher global health, and better cognitive function among youth born extremely preterm. Interventions to address behavioral disorders in early childhood, and to reduce the impact of adverse life events on the family, might promote improved health and developmental outcomes for adolescents born extremely preterm.
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