ReviewActa paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992)2018
Neonatal Eating Outcome Assessment: tool development and inter-rater reliability.
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Standardized Application of Feeding Evaluations Using SMART Tool
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12 citing papers in PubMed.
- Enhancing the assessment of deglutition function in preterm infants with mechano-acoustic analysis and machine learning: a narrative review.Perspectives of the ASHA special interest groups · 2026Article
- Psychometric properties of the SMART tool for infant oral feeding skill assessment.Scientific reports · 2025Observational
- A qualitative inquiry of speech-language therapists' views about breastfeeding management.The South African journal of communication disorders = Die Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir Kommunikasieafwykings · 2025Article
- Association between combined use of epidural analgesia and oxytocin administration during labor and offspring outcomes: a narrative review and proposal.Nagoya journal of medical science · 2024Review
- Relationships between preterm medical factors and feeding behaviors at term-equivalent age.Early human development · 2024Article
- Developmental care pathway for hospitalised infants with CHD: on behalf of the Cardiac Newborn Neuroprotective Network, a Special Interest Group of the Cardiac Neurodevelopmental Outcome Collaborative.Cardiology in the young · 2023Article
- Maternal Perceptions About Sensory Interventions in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: An Exploratory Qualitative Study.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2022Article
- Neonatal feeding performance is related to feeding outcomes in childhood.Early human development · 2020Article
- A pilot study demonstrating the impact of the supporting and enhancing NICU sensory experiences (SENSE) program on the mother and infant.Early human development · 2020Article
- Neonatal Eating Assessment Tool - Mixed Breastfeeding and Bottle-Feeding (NeoEAT - Mixed Feeding): factor analysis and psychometric properties.Maternal health, neonatology and perinatology · 2019Article
- Pacifier use in newborns: related to socioeconomic status but not to early feeding performance.Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992) · 2018Observational
- Interrater Reliability and Concurrent Validity of the Neonatal Eating Outcome Assessment.The American journal of occupational therapy : official publication of the American Occupational Therapy AssociationObservational
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Abstract
aimTo define the process of tool development and revision for the Neonatal Eating Outcome (NEO) Assessment and to report preliminary inter-rater reliability.
methodsTool development consisted of a review of the literature and observations of feeding performance among 178 preterm infants born ≤32 weeks gestation. 11 neonatal therapy feeding experts provided structured feedback to establish content validity and define the scoring matrix. The tool was then used to evaluate feeding in 50 preterm infants born ≤32 weeks of gestation and 50 full-term infants. Multiple revisions occurred at each stage of development. Finally, six neonatal occupational therapists participated in reliability testing by independently scoring five videos of oral feeding of preterm infants using version 4 of the tool.
resultsThe intraclass correlation for the 'prefeeding' score was 0.71 (0.37-0.96), and the intraclass correlation for the 'total' score was 0.83 (0.56-0.98).
conclusionThe 'total' score had good to excellent reliability. Fleiss' Kappa scores for all 18 scorable items ranged from slight agreement to moderate agreement. Items with the lowest Kappa scores were revised, and additional feedback from therapists engaged in reliability testing was incorporated, resulting in final version 5.
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