Does neighborhood deprivation modify the effect of preterm birth on children's first grade academic performance?

ABSTRACT: Children's cognitive development and academic performance are linked to both fetal and early childhood factors, including preterm birth and family socioeconomic status. We evaluated whether the relationship between preterm birth (PTB) and first grade standardized test performance among Georgia public school students was modified by neighborhood deprivation in early childhood. The Georgia Birth to School cohort followed 327,698 children born in Georgia from 1998 to 2002 through to end-of-year first grade standardized tests. Binomial and log-binomial generalized estimating equations were used to estimate risk differences and risk ratios for the associations of both PTB and the Neighborhood Deprivation Index for the census tract in which each child's mother resided at the time of birth with t

SUBMITTER: Richards JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4400252 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature