Research Article

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

Table 4

Effects of other demographic and clinical variables (qualitative variables) upon outcome measures.

VariablesCategoriesMDIPDIBRS

GenderMale
Female
value0.0620.0480.011

CUNormal
Abnormal
Ivh I, II
value0.9610.5110.569

MDI: mental developmental index; PDI: psychomotor developmental index; BRS: behavioural rating scale; CU: cranial ultrasound; Ivh: intraventricular hemorrhage.
For each index, when comparison between categories is significant value is shown in bold.