Very Low Birth Weight Infants: Participation in leisure activity and its influence on developmental outcome.

极低出生体重(VLBW)婴儿有发育和行为问题的风险。他们中的大多数在婴儿期接受了许多治疗(物理、职业、语言治疗、早期干预计划)，但没有证据表明以前的极低出生体重儿从如此高强度的治疗中受益。目前还没有数据表明，具体疗法或参与普通休闲活动或两者结合更有效。参加休闲活动既可被视为发展的结果，也可被视为精神运动发展和/或行为的决定因素。极低出生体重儿的长期结局受许多变量的影响。要检测一项活动或治疗的影响，需要大量的数据集，控制多个混杂变量是必不可少的。在华威大学心理学系的心理健康和幸福处，我有机会学习适当的方法，在2020年的地平线内分析以前的极低出生体重儿的大型数据集：回顾项目。我将回顾欧洲各地VLBW群体使用的有关休闲活动的项目，并随后制定一份问卷，帮助分析休闲活动对德语和英语国家VLBW儿童的发展和/或行为的影响。对于这一项目，新生儿学、神经儿科学/发展心理学和保健科学各学科之间的密切合作和数据集共享是至关重要的，这是德国新生儿网络(Pi教授W.Göpel博士，LüBeck)和地平线2020：重温项目(Pi D.Wolke博士，Warwick)之间建立的。

Very low birth weight (VLBW) infants are at risk of developmental and behavioural problems. Most of them receive numerous therapies (physical, occupational, speech therapy, early intervention programs) during infancy but there is no evidence that former VLBW infants benefit from such high intensity therapy. No data are available whether specific therapies or participation in common leisure activities or a combination of both are more efficient. Participation in leisure activities may be seen both as an outcome of development and as a determinant of psychomotor development and/or behaviour. The long term outcome of VLBW children is influenced by numerous variables. To detect the impact of an activity or therapy requires large datasets and controlling for multiple confounding variables is essential. At the Division of Mental Health and Wellbeing of the Department of Psychology at the University of Warwick I am offered the opportunity to learn the appropriate methods to analyse large datasets of former VLBW infants within the HORIZON 2020: RECAP project. I will review the items about leisure activity that have been used by VLBW cohorts throughout Europe and subsequently develop a questionnaire that will help to analyse the impact of leisure activity on development and / or behaviour of VLBW children in German and English speaking countries. For this project, close cooperation and the sharing of data sets among the disciplines of neonatology, neuro-paediatrics/ developmental psychology and health care science is essential and has been established between the German Neonatal Network (PI Prof. Dr. W. Göpel, Lübeck) and the HORIZON 2020: RECAP project (PI Prof. Dr. D. Wolke, Warwick).