Preterm infants and infants with perinatal brain injury possess an increased incidence of neurodevelopmental disorders (NDD). The Infant Motor Profile (IMP), a clinical assessment, is utilized to estimate the complexity of early motor behaviour. However, its predictive ability and concurrent validity with other common and valid assessments like the Alberta Infant Motor Scale (AIMS) and Prechtl’s General Movement Assessment (GMA) are yet to be confirmed by larger data.
The recent study thus-
The study retrospectively recruited 86 infants at risk of NDD. Preterm infants with or without perinatal brain injury and term infants with brain injury were evaluated at 3 months corrected age (CA) utilizing the GMA and at 5 months CA utilizing the IMP and the AIMS. The neurodevelopmental outcome was specified at 18 months.
The results were as follows-
Thus, early motor behaviour evaluated with the IMP is strongly associated with middle-term neurodevelopmental outcomes. This study confirmed the concurrent validity of the IMP with the AIMS, its association with the GMA and its ability to reflect brain lesion load, hence donating to the construct validity of the assessment.
SOURCE= Rizzio R, Menisci V, Coin ML, et al. Concurrent and predictive validity of the infant motor profile in infants at risk of neurodevelopmental disorders. BMC Pediatric. 2021;21(1):68. Published 2021 Feb 6. doi:10.1186/s12887-021-02522-5
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