| Literature DB >> 15998464 |
A Salt1, K Freeman, A Prusa, N Ferret, W Buffolano, G Malm, D Schmidt, H K Tan, R E Gilbert, E Petersen.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: We aimed to determine how response to a parent-completed postal questionnaire measuring development, behaviour, impairment, and parental concerns and anxiety, varies in different European centres.Entities:
Mesh:
Year: 2005 PMID: 15998464 PMCID: PMC1190190 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2431-5-21
Source DB: PubMed Journal: BMC Pediatr ISSN: 1471-2431 Impact factor: 2.125
Figure 1Flow diagram to show recruitment into the study. Flow diagram to show recruitment into the study. Criteria for possible referrals reported elsewhere [18]. CT = congenital infection status: - depicts uninfected, and + infected children.
Summary of clinical management and follow up protocols, and response rates for each center
| Organizational attributes | ||||||||
| Total sent questionnaires | Prenatal re-testing interval (months)1 | Duration post-natal treatment (month) | A | B1 | B2. | C | Total | |
| Lyon1 | 184 | 1 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 9 |
| Paris1 | 182 | 1 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
| Grenoble1 | 34 | 1 | 12–24 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Marseille1 | 91 | 1 | 12–24 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 10 |
| Nice1 | 44 | 1 | 24 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 10 |
| Toulouse1 | 73 | 1 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 8 |
| Vienna1 | 187 | 3 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 10 |
| Naples1 | 53 | 3 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 11 |
| Stockholm1 | 16 | NS4 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
| Poznan2 | 180 | NS | 12 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 10 |
| Copenhagen3 | 14 | NS | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
NS = neonatal screening
Uninfected children: 1 born to infected women; 2 sampled from general population, 3 none 4 Detection of maternal infection based on neonatal testing of neonatal Guthrie card bloodspots and retrospective testing of stored maternal serum
Organizational attributes
A. Degree of local study clinician direct involvement in follow-up (FU) of children and contact with child's local paediatrician
4 = FU >= 75% children and regular contact
3 = FU >= 50% children and regular contact
2 = FU < 50% children and some contact
1 = FU <25% and no regular contact
B. Access to addresses
B1: 1 = National or local address register
0 = No use of population address register
B2: 3 = regular contact with parents/paediatricians to update addresses >50%
2 = initial contact address >50% but additional methods to update addresses
1 = >75% through initial contact address only
C. Direct contact with parents to encourage return of questionnaire
3. Telephone contact and special letter
2. Follow-up letter
1. No special efforts
Source for questions measuring development, behavior, and parental concerns and anxiety
| Motor development | 6 (a–h) | 0–16 | Griffiths Mental Development Scales [23], Denver Developmental screening test [24] |
| Speech Development | 10 (a–c) | 0–6 | General Language Screen**, parent completed questionnaire for 3 year olds [25]. Validated against four standardised speech and language tests administered by an assessor. |
| Cognitive ability (non-verbal) | 11 (a–g) | 0–7 | PARCA3** (Parent Report of Children's Abilities) [6] validated for 3 year olds against the MacCarthy Scale |
| Behavior | 13 (a–y) | 1–16 | 'Strengths and difficulties questionnaire' (SDQ), validated in 3 to 16 year olds against clinician assessment of behavior disorder [10,12]. Entire questionnaire, published translations, and scoring algorithm used. |
| Parental concerns | 5 | 1–3 | Adapted from PEDS** (Parent Evaluation of Developmental Status). Predicts risk for developmental and behavioral problems and the need for clinical assessment.[26,27] |
| Impact of behavior on family | 14, 14a–d | 0–2 | SDQ questionnaire [10,12,28] |
| Parental anxiety | 25,26,27 | 0–15 | Adaptation of rating scales for measuring anxiety during pregnancy and postpartum [29] in relation to antenatal screening (numbered six point horizontal scale with verbal anchors at extremes). |
| Cognitive and fine motor skills | 12 (a–c) | 0–3 | The child's ability to copy a circle, line and cross was assessed using scoring and normative data available from the Beery Buktenica Developmental Test of Visual Motor Integration [30]. The 'draw a man' was scored using a standardised system and normative data from the Goodenough Draw a Man test [31], using raw scores. |
| Education level achieved | 28 | 0–3 | Educational level achieved based on standard categories defined by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) for Europe.[32] |
* Full version of questionnaire available on
**A subset of the most predictive and least correlated questions were selected.
Characteristics associated with response to questionnaire (N = 1058 total)
| Characteristic | Number responding (%) | Odds ratio for response4 (95% confidence interval) | Final model: Adjusted odds ratio5 (95% CI) |
| All centers | 714 (67.5) | ||
| Lyon (reference) | 134 (72.8) | reference | |
| Paris | 91 (50.0) | 0.37 (0.24, 0.57) | |
| Grenoble | 8 (23.5) | 0.11 (0.05, 0.27) | |
| Marseille | 69 (75.8) | 1.16 (0.65, 2.06) | |
| Nice | 33 (75.0) | 1.12 (0.53, 2.38) | |
| Toulouse | 44 (60.3) | 0.56 (0.31, 0.99) | |
| Copenhagen | 9 (64.3) | 0.67 (0.21, 2.1) | |
| Vienna | 134 (71.7) | 0.97 (0.61, 1.54) | |
| Stockholm | 8 (50.0) | 0.37 (0.13, 1.05) | |
| Naples | 50 (94.3) | 6.22 (1.85, 20.84) | |
| Poznan | 134 (74.4) | 1.09 (0.68, 1.73) | |
| 9 (6,10) | 1.36 (1.27, 1.45) | 1.15 (1.09, 1.23) | |
| CT+ | 178 (80%) | 2.95 (2.01, 4.31) | 4.96 (3.58, 6.88) |
| CT- | 527 (64%) | ||
| 582 (67%) | 1.03 (0.99, 1.07) | 1.02 (0.99, 1.05) | |
| 503 (67%) | 1.05 (0.90, 1.23) | ||
| 530 (68%) | 1.00 (0.92, 1.09) | ||
| Male | 379 (68%) | Reference | |
| Female | 316 (68%) | 0.94 (0.71, 1.25) | |
| Any prescribed | 532 (67%) | 1.85 (0.98, 3.49) | |
| None | 62 (66%) | ||
| Yes | 25 (83.3) | 2.69 (0.56, 13.00) | |
| No | 569 (66.3) |
1 Excludes 14 infected children from Denmark (9 responded), as no uninfected controls available.
2 Excludes 156 children in Poznan (134 responded), as uninfected control group selected from the general population had no information on these variables.
3 Odds ratio per unit increase in characteristic
4 Adjusted for congenital infection status and center
5 Adjusted for all factors shown. Goodness of fit statistic was close to 1 (1.0063)
Summary of response rates for each center
| Response rate (%) | Total non-responders | Address not known | Refused to participate | No response | Other1 | |
| Lyon | 73% | 50 | 12 (24) | 1 (2) | 37 (74) | 0 |
| Paris | 50% | 91 | 46 (50) | 0 | 45 (49) | 0 |
| Grenoble | 24% | 26 | 1 (4) | 0 | 25 (96) | 0 |
| Marseille | 76% | 22 | 17 (77) | 0 | 4 (18) | 1 (4) |
| Nice | 75% | 11 | 8 (73) | 3 (6) | 0 | 0 |
| Toulouse | 60% | 29 | 21 (72) | 0 | 8 (28) | 0 |
| Vienna | 72% | 53 | 21 (40) | 32 (60) | 0 | 0 |
| Naples | 94% | 3 | 1(33) | 2 (66) | 0 | 0 |
| Stockholm | 50% | 8 | 3 (37) | 1 (12) | 2 (25) | 2 (25)* |
| Poznan | 74% | 46 | 20 (43) | 21 (46) | 4 (9) | 1 (2) |
| Copenhagen | 64% | 5 | 1 (20) | 0 | 4 (80) | 0 |
| 344 | 151 (44) | 60 (17) | 129 (37) | 4 (1) | ||
1 Other reasons eg. died, mentally retarded parents