Low Birth Weight, Prematurity, and Paternal Social Status: Impact on the Basic Competence Test in Taiwanese Adolescents

Wen Li Wang, Yao Ting Sung, Fung Chang Sung, Tsung Hsueh Lu, Su Chen Kuo, Chung Yi Li*

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研究成果: 雜誌貢獻期刊論文同行評審

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摘要

Objective: To investigate whether birth weight and paternal education may have independent and interactive effects on the learning achievement of adolescents. Study design: We linked birth weights, gestational ages (term or preterm) and paternal education of a 4-year birth cohort to the Basic Competence Test (BCT) scores in Mandarin, mathematics and science for junior high school students age 15 to 16 years. The study groups comprised infants with term low birth weight (TLBW; n = 33 507), preterm normal birth weight (PNBW; n =19 905), and preterm low birth weight (PLBW; n = 25 840), as well as randomly selected term infants with normal birth weight (TNBW; n = 83 756). Paternal education levels were categorized. Results: Compared with the TNBW adolescents, the TLBW adolescents consistently showed larger deficits in mean scores for Mandarin (β = -2.36), mathematics (β = -2.89), and science (β = -2.11). The corresponding significant deficit scores for the PLBW adolescents were -1.93, -2.80, and -1.92. The deficit scores were very small for the PNBW adolescents. Paternal education was inversely associated with scores of all 3 groups. Lower paternal education level tended to worsen the negative impact of low birth weight on BCT scores. Conclusions: Both lower birth weight and lower paternal education exert an independent and interactive effect on adolescent learning achievement.

原文英語
頁(從 - 到)333-338
頁數6
期刊Journal of Pediatrics
153
發行號3
DOIs
出版狀態已發佈 - 2008 9月

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • 兒科、圍產兒和兒童健康

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