ArticleBMC psychiatry2019
Psychiatric symptoms and risk factors in adults born preterm with very low birthweight or born small for gestational age at term.
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- Socioeconomic outcomes in very preterm/very low birth weight adults: individual participant data meta-analysis.Pediatric research · 2025Pooled it
- Motor outcomes in individuals born small for gestational age at term: a systematic review.BMC pediatrics · 2024Pooled it
- Multidisciplinary and neuroimaging findings in preterm born very low birthweight individuals from birth to 28 years of age: A systematic review of a Norwegian prospective cohort study.Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology · 2022Pooled it
- The prevalence and profile of autism in individuals born preterm: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of neurodevelopmental disorders · 2021Pooled it
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- Developmental trajectories of internalizing problems among individuals born very preterm/very low birthweight: early risk and resilience factors.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2025Article
- Preterm birth, birthweight, and subsequent risk for depression.Journal of developmental origins of health and disease · 2023Article
- Mental health in young adults born extremely preterm or extremely low birthweight with contemporary neonatal intensive care.Psychological medicine · 2023Article
- Psychological legacies of intergenerational trauma under South African apartheid: Prenatal stress predicts greater vulnerability to the psychological impacts of future stress exposure during late adolescence and early adulthood in Soweto, South Africa.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2023Article
- The early life course-related traits with three psychiatric disorders: A two-sample Mendelian randomization study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Mental health in adults born preterm with very low birth weight at 14 and 26 years of age assessed by the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire.Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992) · 2023Article
- Outcomes and predictors of functioning, mental health, and health-related quality of life in adults born with very low birth weight: a prospective longitudinal cohort study.BMC pediatrics · 2022Article
- Neurocognitive function and associations with mental health in adults born preterm with very low birthweight or small for gestational age at term.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Term Birth Weight and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes.Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundWe aimed to examine psychiatric symptoms in adults born preterm with very low birthweight or born at term small for gestational age compared with normal birthweight peers, and examine associations with perinatal factors and childhood motor and cognitive function.
methodsIn this longitudinal cohort study, one preterm born group with very low birthweight (VLBW: birthweight ≤1500 g), one term-born Small for Gestational Age (SGA: birthweight <10th percentile) group and one term-born non-SGA control group, were assessed at 26 years of age. Primary outcomes were scores on self-reported questionnaires: Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment - Adult Self-Report, The Autism-Spectrum Quotient and Peters et al. Delusions Inventory. Exposure variables were perinatal data, while childhood motor and cognitive function were examined as possible early markers.
resultsBoth the preterm VLBW and the term SGA group reported higher levels of attention, internalizing and externalizing problems compared to the control group. In addition, the VLBW participants reported more critical items and a higher proportion had intermediate level autistic traits, while the SGA participants reported more intrusive behavior. Increasing length of respiratory support and hospital stay in the neonatal period, and motor problems in early adolescence, were associated with adult psychiatric symptoms in the VLBW group.
conclusionsPsychiatric symptoms were frequent in the preterm VLBW group and also in the term-born SGA group. Those who were sickest as babies were most at risk. Motor problems can possibly serve as an early marker of adult psychiatric symptoms in low birthweight individuals.
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