Abstract
AIM: To compare anxiety symptoms in adolescents born extremely prematurely to term-born controls.
METHODS: We had 96 preterm-born adolescents and 40 term-born controls from Denmark, and their mothers score the adolescents on the Revised Children Anxiety and Depression scale. We analysed group differences, cross-informant correlations and relative risks for elevated anxiety symptoms.
RESULTS: Self-reported anxiety symptoms did not significantly differ, although the upper confidence limit (95% CI: -3.3 to 5.1) supported an odds ratio of 2 for the preterm-born participants. Mothers of the preterm-born participants reported higher social anxiety symptoms than did mothers of controls (51.7 versus 46.8, p = 0.001). The relative risk for being above a threshold indicating distressing anxiety was small from self-reports (1.39; p = 0.60). From mother-reports, the relative risk was noticeable but not significant (4.58; p = 0.14). Cross-informant scores correlated significant for total anxiety and social anxiety for the preterm-born (rτ = 0.2, p = 0.001; rτ = 0.3, p ≤ 0.001).
CONCLUSIONS: Self-reports did not clearly indicate more anxiety in the preterm group, although confidence intervals supported a possible twofold increase. Mother- and self-reports correlated only for the preterm group, which may indicate increased sensitivity for their children's symptoms.
| Originalsprog | Engelsk |
|---|---|
| Tidsskrift | Acta Paediatrica |
| Vol/bind | 107 |
| Udgave nummer | 3 |
| Sider (fra-til) | 456-461 |
| Antal sider | 6 |
| ISSN | 0803-5253 |
| DOI | |
| Status | Udgivet - mar. 2018 |