Early Detection of Developmental Abnormalities of Preterm Infants at 5 Years of Age
Early Detection and Prevention of Health Complications in Premature Infants - Early Detection of Developmental Abnormalities of Preterm Infants at 5 Years of Age
Institute of Health Information and Statistics of the Czech Republic
210 participants
Sep 23, 2025
INTERVENTIONAL
Conditions
Summary
The project is a national, prospective, multicenter, interventional pilot project focused on the follow up of 5 year old children that were born prematurely. The primary aim of the project is to prepare, test, and develop a proposal for a national methodology for the care of children born prematurely. This will minimize the negative impacts on the overall development of the child and the family of the prematurely born children.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria3
- Signed consent for participation in the project and consent for the processing of personal data.
- Children born before 37 weeks of gestation, aged 5 years, growing up in a Czech-speaking environment.
- To ensure valid linkage of all data sources, the children must have been born to parents with Czech citizenship.
Exclusion Criteria3
- Unsigned consent for participation in the project and consent for the processing of personal data.
- Severe psychomotor retardation .
- Severe congenital malformations.
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Interventions
Eligible children are invited to undergo a comprehensive pediatric evaluation, including vision screening (Plusoptix) and speech and language tests (TEPO - sentence comprehension, TEPRO - vocabulary production). Subsequently, children are referred for psychological (IDS-P), motor (MABC-2), and pulmonary (spirometry) assessments. If any deviations are identified, the child is referred to appropriate specialists (e.g., rehabilitation physician, speech therapist, psychiatrist, ophthalmologist).
Locations(4)
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NCT07391527