Copper, Clare, Waterman, Amanda, Nicoletti, Cheti orcid.org/0000-0002-7237-2597 et al. (3 more authors) (2023) Educational Achievement to age 11 in Children Born at Late Preterm and Early Term Gestations. Archives of Disease in Childhood. ISSN 1468-2044
Abstract
Objective: To investigate the effects of being born late preterm (LPT, 34-36 weeks’ gestation) or early term (37-38 weeks) on children’s educational achievement between 5 and 11 years-old. Design: A series of observational studies of longitudinal linked health and education data. Setting: The Born-in-Bradford (BiB) birth cohort study, which recruited mothers during pregnancy between 2007 and 2011. Participants: The participants are children born between 2007 and 2011. Children with missing data, looked-after-children, multiple births, and births post-term were excluded. The sample size varies by age according to amount of missing data, from 7860 children at age 5 to 2386 at age 11 (8031 at age 6, and 5560 at age 7). Main Outcome Measures: Binary variables of whether a child reached the ‘expected’ level of overall educational achievement across subjects at the ages of 5, 6, 7 and 11 years. The achievement levels are measured using standardized teacher assessments and national tests. Results: Compared to full-term births (39-41 weeks), there were significantly increased adjusted odds of children born LPT, but not early term, of failing to achieve expected levels of overall educational achievement at ages 5 (aOR:1.72,95% CI:1.34 to 2.21) and 7 (aOR:1.46,95% CI:1.08 to 1.97) but not at age 11 (aOR:1.51,95% CI:0.99 to 2.30). Being born LPT still had statistically significant effects on writing and mathematics at age 11. Conclusions: There is a strong association between LPT and education at age 5, which remains strong and statistically significant through age 11 for maths but not for other key subjects.
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > Economics and Related Studies (York) The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Health Sciences (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 16 Aug 2023 14:10 |
Last Modified: | 16 Oct 2024 19:22 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2023-325453 |
Status: | Published online |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1136/archdischild-2023-325453 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:202517 |
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