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 .
Early home intervention with low-birth-weight infants and their parents.
We investigated the effects of a year-long home intervention with a sample of preterm infants r and omly assigned to 1 of 3 groups : a developmental intervention , a parent-infant intervention , and a no-treatment control group . A full-term no-treatment control was also used . Both intervention approaches focused on the parent-child unit , providing training for parents to improve observational skills , emotional support , and information about community re sources . However , whereas specific tasks to facilitate the child 's development were provided in the developmental intervention group , the quality of the parent-infant interaction was the target for treatment in the other group . All infants were assessed at 4 , 8 , 12 , and 16 months of age corrected for prematurity . The results suggest that although both intervention approaches were effective in modifying some aspects of the home environment and , to a lesser degree , in improving infants ' cognitive development , the parent-infant interaction approach seemed to have the greater impact . These findings confirm previous observations regarding the cognitive development of preterm and full-term infants during the first 18 months of life and demonstrate changes in behavior and behavior styles in both pre- and full-term infants as they become older
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 .