Effects of a Home-Based Family-Centred Early Habilitation Program on Neurobehavioural Outcomes of Very Preterm Born Infants: A Retrospective Cohort Study

Table 2

Comparisons between intervention and control groups on the basis of both demographic and clinical variables.

	Categories	Intervention group	Control group	value
Total number		61	62
Gender	Male	34 (56%)	27 (44%)	0.176
	Female	27 (44%)	35 (56%)
Socioeconomic level				0.818
GA				0.002
BW				0.004
BW classification	VLBW	46 (75%)	52 (84%)	0.244
	ELBW	15 (25%)	10 (16%)
Size versus GA	AGA	48 (79%)	50 (81%)	0.787
	SGA	13 (21%)	12 (19%)
HC				0.005
Apgar score	1′ AS			0.528
	5′ AS			0.770
CU	Norm	26 (42%)	36 (58%)	0.218
	Abnorm	23 (38%)	16 (26%)
	Ivh I, II	12 (20%)	10 (16%)
BPD	No	50 (82%)	59 (95%)	0.008
	Yes	11 (18%)	3 (5%)
MV				0.178

GA: gestational age (days); BW: birth weight (g); VLBW: very low birth weight; ELBW: extremely low birth weight; AGA: appropriate for gestational age; SGA: small for gestational age; HC: head circumference (cm); 1′-AS: 1-minute Apgar score; 5′-AS: 5-minute Apgar score; CU: cranial ultrasound; Ivh: intraventricular hemorrhage; BPD: bronchopulmonary dysplasia; MV: mechanical ventilation (days). For quantitative variables, mean values ± standard error of mean are reported. For qualitative variables, both absolute numbers and percentages are reported. When comparison between groups is significant, value is shown in bold.