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Effects of early interventions focused on the family in the development of children born preterm and/or at social risk: a meta-analysis.
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26 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 57 citations in OpenAlex.
- Home-visiting Parenting Programs to Improve Mother-Infant Interactions at Early Ages: A Systematic Review.Psychosocial intervention · 2024Pooled it
- Parent-Guided Developmental Intervention for Infants With Very Low Birth Weight: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2024Trial
- Early developmental support for preterm infants based on exploratory behaviors: A parallel randomized controlled study.Brain and behavior · 2023Trial
- The NeuroSense PremmieEd Parenting Educational Intervention (PremmieSense)-A Neuroprotective Intervention for Preterm Infant-Parent Dyads: Reported Using the TIDieR Framework.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Identification and Assessment of Systematic Reviews for Evidence-Based Guideline Recommendations on Follow-Up of Preterm Born Children: A Mapping Review.Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992) · 2026Review
- Family ecological influences on early childhood development in Shanghai, China: a cross-sectional study.BMC pediatrics · 2026Article
- Family quality of life in early intervention: systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2026Article
- Majority country methods for developmental psychology: Evidence and insights from diverse global settings.Developmental psychology · 2026Article
- Congenital hypothyroidism and associated visual-motor and intellectual development.Pediatric research · 2025Article
- Perinatal and Childhood Risk Factors of Adverse Early Childhood Developmental Outcomes: A Systematic Review Using a Socioecological Model.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Developmental outcomes of small infants at a high-risk clinic: A short-term longitudinal study.The South African journal of communication disorders = Die Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir Kommunikasieafwykings · 2025Article
- Construction and validation of an educational booklet on prematurity for pregnant women, postpartum women and family members.Revista brasileira de enfermagem · 2025Article
- The Effect of Group-Based Early Parent Education on Development in Preterm Infants.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- The Homeostasis-Enrichment-Plasticity (HEPJournal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Intellectual Development in Mexican Preterm Children at Risk of Perinatal Brain Damage: A Longitudinal Study.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- The Impact of Parent-Based Support Programs on Neurodevelopmental Prognosis: Second-Year Results from a Newly Established Neurodevelopmental Follow-Up Unit in a Tertiary Hospital.Turkish archives of pediatrics · 2024Article
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- Cognitive and motor improvement by tummy time practice in preemies from low-income settings: a randomized clinical trial.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
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- Effects of Prone Positioning on Head Control in Preterm Infants: Randomized and Controlled Clinical Trial Protocol.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo verify whether early intervention focused on the family improves the cognitive, motor, and language development of children born preterm and/or at social risk in the first 3 years of life. SOURCE OF DATA: Meta-analysis of clinical trials published between 2008 and 2018, in the following databases: CINAHL, MEDLINE - PubMed, MEDLINE - BVS, LILACS - BVS, IBECS - BVS, PEDro and Cochrane Reviews. Experimental studies on early interventions focused on the family, whose target groups were children born preterm and/or at social risk, with assessment of cognitive and/or motor and/or language development up to 3 years were included. The studies were rated using the PEDro Scale. DATA SYNTHESIS: Twelve studies were included from a total of 3378 articles. Early intervention focused on the family contributed to the development of the cognitive (Standardized Mean Difference - SMD=0.48, 95% CI: 0.34-0.61) and motor (SMD=0.76, 95% CI: 0.55-0.96) domains of preterm infants. Regarding cognitive development, performance improvement was observed at 12, 24 and 36 months, while in the motor domain, the effect was observed only at 12 months in preterm infants. There was no benefit of the intervention in the cognitive, motor, and language outcomes of children with the social risk factor associated to biological risk.
conclusionEarly intervention focused on the family has a positive effect on the cognition of preterm infants. The effect on motor development was lower, possibly due to the emphasis on interventions in family-child interaction. The effect of interventions on the development of children at social risk and on the language domain was inconclusive, due to the scarcity of studies in the area.
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