Developmental Study for Cognitive and Emotional Executive Function in Preschool and School-age Children Born Very Low Birth Weight with Normal Early Development

Abstract

The aim of this study was to investigate cognitive and emotional profile in VLBW children with normal early development at school-age and the development from preschool to school-age Participants were 63 eight-year-old VLBW children with normal early development and 74 Full-term children with comparable gender home environment and social economic status Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-IV (WISC-IV) Tower of London (ToL) Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST) Knox’s Cube Test (KCT) Comprehensive Non-verbal Attention Test Battery (CNAT) and Emotional EF Ecological Assessment Battery for Children in Taiwan were administered in order to evaluate cognitive and emotional EF in the two groups The results showed that average cognitive and emotional EFs of VLBW group was comparable with the Full-term group further analysis showed that these two groups of children have similar pattern in the two EF domains’ relationships; the two EF domains both showed stronger correlations in the two groups In addition 24 VLBW children were traced all at the age of 6 and 8 found the average two EFs significantly progressed with age In conclusion this study revealed that the two EFs of VLBW children with normal early development was not identified to that of the Full-term group at age 8

Date of Award	2020
Original language	English
Supervisor	Nai-Wen Guo (Supervisor)