The long-term neurodevelopmental outcomes of infants born full-term with low birth weight

Abstract

In this study, it was aimed to evaluate the neurological developments of preschool or school-aged children together with their school successes, intelligencequotient and symptom severity of attention deficit hyperactivity disorderwho were born at the 37th gestational week and above with birth weightsbelow tenth percentile, which is called small for gestational age (SGA). Atotal of 74 patients with SGA and 75 healthy children were evaluated. Thepatients were evaluated by child neurologist and child psychiatrist. WechslerIntelligence Scale for Children-Revised, Ankara Developmental ScreeningInventory, and The Turgay DSM-IV-Based Child and Adolescent DisruptiveBehavioral Disorders Screening and Rating Scale (T-DSM-IV-S) were appliedaccording to their age groups. SGA cases had been breastfed for shorterdurations (p: 0.004), had walked later (p