Educational achievement of children with selected major congenital anomalies and associated factors: a Finnish registry-based study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Children with major congenital anomalies may be at risk of poor educational outcomes. We aimed to evaluate the educational achievement of children born with major congenital anomalies compared with children without major congenital anomalies in relation to sociodemographic factors.

Methods

We performed a registry-based study including 401 544 children in Finland, graduates of the compulsory school who applied to secondary education. We used health data from the Finnish Register of Congenital Malformations for children born from 1995 to 2002 linked with education data from the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture. We used generalized linear regression to compare the mean grade differences of children with specific major congenital anomalies and 'All anomalies'

SUBMITTER: Roustaei Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10710322 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature