Exploring adults' recollections of growing up with childhood motor difficulties: a qualitative study using systematic text condensation.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To explore the ramifications of childhood motor difficulties, providing insights into their impact and consequences over time.

Design

A qualitative study using semistructured individual interviews. Data were analysed using systematic text condensation.

Setting

Neonatal intensive care recipients born at Uppsala University Children's Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden, between 1986 and 1989, were enrolled in a longitudinal follow-up study and subsequently interviewed in 2019-2020.

Participants

13 individuals in their early 30s, who met the criteria for developmental coordination disorder or performed below the 5th percentile on motor tests at 6.5 years of age, were interviewed. Those with co-occurring deficits in attention or social behavioural at age 6.5 were e

SUBMITTER: Zahlander J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11407206 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature