Samantha L Thomas, Hannah Pitt, Melanie Randle, Sean Cowlishaw, Angela Rintoul, Sylvia Kairouz, Mike Daube
Convenient consumption: a critical qualitative inquiry into the gambling practices of younger women in Australia
Health promotion international
compare academic attainment age 12 years preterm children born 30 weeks gestation matched termborn peers using standardized nationwide wellvalidated school tests populationbased national cohort study performed linking perinatal data nationwide netherlands perinatal registry educational outcome data statistics netherlands included 4677 surviving preterm children born 25072967 weeks gestational age 366 561 controls born 40 weeks gestational age 20002007 first special education participation rate calculated subsequently preterm children academic attainment test data derived age 12 years matched termborn children using year month birth sex parity socioeconomic status maternal age total language mathematics test scores secondary school level advice compared 2 groups children 30 weeks gestation higher special education participation rate 102 vs 27 p 001 termborn peers preterm children lower total 037 sd 95 ci 042 031 language 021 sd 95 ci 027 015 mathematics 045 sd 95ci 051 038 z scores often prevocational secondary school level advice 62 vs 46 p 001 substantial proportion children born 30 weeks gestation need special education end elementary schooling children significant deficits measures academic attainment age 12 years especially mathematics compared matched termborn peers