Conclusion : Positive clinical ly meaningful effects ( > 5 points ) are seen to an age of 36 months , but are no longer present at 5 years
Objective : To determine in a systematic review , whether interventions for infant development that involve parents , improve neurodevelopment at 12 months corrected age or older .
Enhancing the outcomes of low-birth-weight, premature infants. A multisite, randomized trial. The Infant Health and Development Program.
The Infant Health and Development Program is an eight-site clinical trial design ed to evaluate the efficacy of a comprehensive early intervention in reducing the developmental and health problems of low-birth-weight ( less than or equal to 2500 g ) premature ( less than or equal to 37 weeks ) infants . Nine hundred eighty-five infants , stratified by site and weight ( less than or equal to 2000 g or 2001 to 2500 g ) , were r and omly assigned to receive an educational curriculum focused on child development , as well as family support and pediatric follow-up , or only pediatric follow-up . At corrected age 36 months , the intervention group had significantly higher mean IQ scores than the follow-up group ( mean difference in the heavier group was 13.2 and in the lighter group 6.6 ) , significantly fewer maternally reported behavior problems , and a small , but statistically significant , increase in maternally reported minor illnesses for the lighter-birth-weight group only , with no difference in serious health conditions
Conclusion : Positive clinical ly meaningful effects ( > 5 points ) are seen to an age of 36 months , but are no longer present at 5 years
Objective : To determine in a systematic review , whether interventions for infant development that involve parents , improve neurodevelopment at 12 months corrected age or older .