Early Childhood Attention Battery in Preterm Children

Institute of Hospitalization and Scientific Care (IRCCS)

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Prematurity; Attention-deficit

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05843266

4685

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Enrollment: 200 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 42 to 59 months old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

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.