Abstract
Premature birth, defined as birth before the completion of 37 weeks of gestation, places children at risk for medical, physical, psychosocial and neurodevelopmental impairments. These impairments may vary in severity. Beyond infancy, children born prematurely are typically not studied as a group, but rather fall within many other diagnostic labels and categories. Non-categorical research, using consequence-based measures, is a means of capturing the effect of prematurity. In this study three major areas of functioning were assessed in 9- to 11-year-old children born prematurely and a group of full-term controls: special health care needs, working memory capacity and health-related quality of life (HRQOL). Working memory is described as a pure measure of children's ability to learn, as it is the capacity to hold and process information. Health-related quality of life is a state that encompasses children's perception of and adaptation to their world, includes the children's physical, social, emotional and school environments, and acknowledges its variable effect on childhood.
Sigma Membership
Alpha Nu
Type
Dissertation
Format Type
Text-based Document
Study Design/Type
Descriptive/Correlational
Research Approach
Quantitative Research
Keywords:
Premature Children, Children with Special Needs, Neurological Impairments
Advisor
Nancy C. Sharts-Hopko
Second Advisor
Pamela Blewitt
Degree
PhD
Degree Grantor
Villanova University
Degree Year
2012
Recommended Citation
Kelly, Michelle L., "Life after prematurity: Special health care needs, working memory, and health-related quality of life among 9- to 11-year-old children born prematurely" (2020). Dissertations. 1805.
https://www.sigmarepository.org/dissertations/1805
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None: Degree-based Submission
Acquisition
Proxy-submission
Date of Issue
2020-01-10
Full Text of Presentation
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This dissertation has also been disseminated through the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database. Dissertation/thesis number: 3503773; ProQuest document ID: 1010398515. The author still retains copyright.