ArticleJournal of pediatrics. Clinical practice2025
Do Motor Difficulties in Infancy Predict 7-year-olds' Behavioural Health? Findings from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children.
Article in Journal of pediatrics. Clinical practice, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Objective: To examine whether fine- and gross-motor skills in infancy predict child behavioral health at 7 years of age. Study design: Longitudinal cohort data from 6,709 English children were analyzed using regression techniques to investigate whether fine- and gross-motor skills at 18 months, measured by Denver developmental categorized age-adjusted Z-scores, predicted behavioral health at 7 years of age, measured by the total-score on the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire. Results: A dose-response relationship exists between fine-motor skills at 18 months and behavioral health at 7 years of age. In fully-adjusted models, (cumulative sociodemographic risk, sex, history of maternal psychological difficulties, gross-motor skills, and gestational age), the odds of experiencing clinical levels of behavioral health symptoms at 7 years of age decreased as fine-motor skills increased. Odds ratios were 0.5 (95% CI 0.2-1.3) for children with below, 0.3 (95% CI 0.1-0.8) for slightly-below, 0.2 (95% CI 0.1-0.4) for average and, 0.1 (95% CI 0.1-0.4) for above-average fine-motor skills compared to children with well-below fine-motor skills. Children with well-below, below, and slightly-below-average fine-motor skills reported almost 6-times, 3-times and double higher rates of clinical behavioural health symptoms at 7-years compared to children with average or above fine-motor-skills. Gross-motor skills were not prognostic of later behavioural health. Conclusions: Infants with any level of fine-motor difficulties had higher rates of parent-reported behavioural health symptoms at 7-years. Fine-motor but not gross-motor skills in infancy are predictive of poor behavioural health at 7-years. Examining how numerous factors such as motor skills, gestational-age and sociodemographic risk combine to predict risk of poor behavioural health may be more useful than considering any individual predictor in isolation.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.