Effect of gestational age on special education: a population-based matched cohort analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate the effect of gestational age on special education use at primary school age, and to examine specific groups with elevated risk.

Design, setting and patients

Population-based matched cohort study linking data from the Dutch national perinatal registry (PERINED) of all singleton surviving children without major congenital abnormalities, born between 25⁺⁰ and 42⁺⁶ weeks of gestation between 1999 and 2009, with data of the mandatory special education registry of Statistics Netherlands.

Main outcome measures

Use of special education at primary school age.

Results

1 814 540 children were included. Overall prevalence of special education was 6.6%, with highest rates in children born at 25 weeks (34.7%) and lowest at 40 w

SUBMITTER: de Baat T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12772590 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature