School-age effects of the newborn individualized developmental care and assessment program for preterm infants with intrauterine growth restriction: preliminary findings

Table 1 Anthropometric, medical and demographic variables at time of evaluation ^a

Variable	Control (C) (n = 14)	Experimental (E) (n = 9)	p
Metric
Weight, kg	36.16 (12.03)	32.69 (7.39)	0.41
Height, cm	138.84 (9.75)	136.58 (10.90)	0.63
Head Circumference, cm	53.21 (1.83)	52.11 (2.03)	0.21
Percentiles
Weight percentile	60.00 (35.30)	55.78 (31.16)	0.77
Height percentile	57.69 (29.25)	48.22 (38.00)	0.54
Head Circumference percentile	61.46 (29.96)	45.11 (32.26)	0.25
Age at testing, years	9.63 (0.92)	9.76 (1.10)	0.77
Mother’s IQ
Verbal	109.84 (20.49)	102.33 (11.11)	0.27
Non-Verbal	111.24 (14.88)	104.67 (12.06)	0.26
Composite	111.16 (16.75)	103.44 (11.45)	0.20
Male/female	9/5	4/5	0.42^b
Special school services, yes/no	10/4	8/1	0.61^b
Disability Diagnoses, yes/no	6/8	5/4	0.68^b
Hearing loss, yes/no	1/13	0/9	1.0^b
Mother’s Education Level (HS/College/Grad)	4/7/3	4/3/2	0.69^c
Income (<50 K/50-75 K/>75 K)	1/2/11	2/1/6	0.58^c
Ethnicity (Caucasian/Black/Hispan/Other)	10/1/1/2	7/1/0/1	0.85^c

^aResults are means and (standard deviations) unless otherwise noted. Statistical analyses used are Brown-Forsythe Univariate Analysis of Variance: F*, ^bFisher’s exact Test, and ^cPearson’s chi square: χ². p = probability.

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