Copper, C., Waterman, A.H., Nicoletti, C. et al. (3 more authors) (2023) Educational achievement to age 11 years in children born at late preterm and early term gestations. Archives of Disease in Childhood. ISSN 0003-9888
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 ages 5 and 11 years.
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 years to 2386 at age 11 years (8031 at age 6 years and 5560 at age 7 years).
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 standardised teacher assessments and national tests.
Results Compared with 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 years (adjusted OR (aOR) 1.72,95% CI 1.34 to 2.21) and 7 years (aOR 1.46, 95% CI 1.08 to 1.97) but not at age 11 years (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 years.
Conclusions There is a strong association between LPT and education at age 5 years, which remains strong and statistically significant through age 11 years for mathematics but not for other key subjects.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2023. This is an author produced version of an article published in Archives of Diseases in Childhood. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Medicine and Health (Leeds) > School of Psychology (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 13 Sep 2023 13:28 |
Last Modified: | 17 Oct 2023 14:08 |
Status: | Published online |
Publisher: | BMJ |
Identification Number: | 10.1136/archdischild-2023-325453 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:203319 |