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Author Year Location | Study design | Age of assessment | Preterm | Control group | Parents | Exclusion | Tools | Aim of the study | Main results |
You et al. 2019 China | comparative | 24 30 | 61 | 85 |
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| Gesell Development Diagnosis scale Normal Development of Social Skills from Infants to Junior High School Children scale | To compare the social competence, motor development, and cognition of late preterm infants (LPIs) with full-term infants | Gross and fine motor skills were significant associated with social skills. Late preterm infants were at risk of motor developmental delays |
Benzies et al. 2017 Canada | Longitudinal | 4 8 18 |
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| 82 | - | Ages and Stages Questionnaires | To examine longitudinal patterns of early development in Canadian children born late preterm | At 4 and 8 months of age late preterm infants had significant lower scores at gross motor skills than the full-term infants. At 4 months of age late preterm infant had lower score at fine motor scales that the full tern infants. There were no significant differences at the age of 18 months between groups |
Ballantyne et al. 2016 Canada | Descriptive comparative | 12 ± 2 weeks. | 52 | 156 |
| SGA Genetic disorders and relative abnormalities | Ages and Stages Questionnaires 3 | The aim of this study was to compare the risk of developmental delay between late preterm and full-term Canadian born infants at age 12 months, and to determine infant and maternal factors associated with risk of delay | Late preterm infants were at risk of motor developmental delays at the age of 12 months |
De Almeida Soares et al. 2015 Brazil | Intervention program |
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| To compare the effects of a short bout of practice on reaching behavior between late preterm and full-term infants at the onset of goal-directed reaching | Late preterm infants had great variability of proximal of reaching after practice and exhibited smaller variability for distal adjustments. Late preterm infants had less beneficial from this practice program |