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A Comparitive Study of Early Intervention Programme Vs Home Intervention Programme in Preterm Infants
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Background: Prematurity as defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) is a baby born before 37 weeks of gestation counting from the first day of the last menstrual period. Infants born at early gestational ages (<32 weeks), when compared with later ages (32-36) weeks scored lower on tests of gross motor development. So mild abnormalities detected in first few months would improve with early intervention programme.
Methods: The preterm infants born before 37 gestational weeks and having APGAR score above 7 (after 5 minutes) were randomly selected and divided into two groups (N=15). Early developmental intervention programme was given to one group and home intervention programme was given to other group (control group). The outcome measure was Gross Motor Function Measure.
Results: According to the need of the study unpaired t-test was applied and significant improvement was seen.
Conclusion: Greater improvement in motor performance of preterm infants who received the early intervention programme when compared with home intervention was revealed.
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