Impact of developmental coordination disorder in childhood on educational outcomes in adulthood among neonatal intensive care recipients: a register-based longitudinal cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Developmental coordination disorder (DCD) is related to poorer educational outcomes among children and adolescents. Evidence on this association into adulthood is lacking. Therefore, we aimed to investigate whether probable DCD (pDCD) in childhood affected educational outcomes among adults, and whether this was affected by sex or a co-occurring attention deficit in childhood.

Design

Register-based longitudinal cohort study.

Setting

Neonatal intensive care (NIC) recipients born at Uppsala University Children's Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden, from 1986 to 1989 until they reached the age of 28.

Participants

185 NIC recipients.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

At the age of 6.5, 46 (24.6%) of the NIC recipients were diagnosed with pDCD. Using reg

SUBMITTER: Persson I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10533808 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature