Victoria K Robson1, Christian Stopp2, David Wypij3, Carolyn Dunbar-Masterson2, David C Bellinger4, David R DeMaso5, Leonard A Rappaport1, Jane W Newburger6. 1. Department of Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA; Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. 2. Department of Cardiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA. 3. Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Department of Cardiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA; Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA. 4. Department of Neurology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA; Department of Psychiatry, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA; Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. 5. Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Department of Cardiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA; Department of Psychiatry, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA; Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. 6. Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Department of Cardiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA. Electronic address: jane.newburger@cardio.chboston.org.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To examine associations between measurements of neurodevelopment and psychosocial health status at age 8 and 16 years in patients with repaired dextro-transposition of the great arteries. STUDY DESIGN: In the 16-year follow-up of the Boston Circulatory Arrest Study, 137 parents completed the Child Health Questionnaire-Parent Form-50, of whom 135 had completed the Child Health Questionnaire-Parent Form-50 when their child was age 8 years. Psychosocial and physical summary scores were used to assess change in health status from age 8 to 16 years. A comprehensive battery of neurodevelopmental testing was performed at ages 8 and 16 years to examine associations with adolescent health status. RESULTS: Lower psychosocial summary scores of 16 year old subjects with dextro-transposition of the great arteries were highly associated with numerous concurrent domains of neurodevelopmental function, most notably with higher (worse) scores on the Conners' Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder/Diagnostic and Statistical Manual-4th Edition Scales (parent: r = -0.62, P < .001; adolescent: r = -0.43, P < .001) and the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function Global Executive Composite (parent: r = -0.66, P < .001; adolescent: r = -0.39, P < .001). Psychosocial and physical summary scores tracked from ages 8 to 16 years (r = 0.44 and 0.47, respectively, P < .001 for each). Higher (worse) scores of multiple attention measures at age 8 years predicted worse psychosocial summary scores at age 16 years. CONCLUSIONS: Attention deficits at age 8 years were highly predictive of worse psychosocial health status in adolescence. Further studies are needed to assess whether treatment of childhood attention deficit hyperactivity disorder could improve adolescent well-being.
OBJECTIVE: To examine associations between measurements of neurodevelopment and psychosocial health status at age 8 and 16 years in patients with repaired dextro-transposition of the great arteries. STUDY DESIGN: In the 16-year follow-up of the Boston Circulatory Arrest Study, 137 parents completed the Child Health Questionnaire-Parent Form-50, of whom 135 had completed the Child Health Questionnaire-Parent Form-50 when their child was age 8 years. Psychosocial and physical summary scores were used to assess change in health status from age 8 to 16 years. A comprehensive battery of neurodevelopmental testing was performed at ages 8 and 16 years to examine associations with adolescent health status. RESULTS: Lower psychosocial summary scores of 16 year old subjects with dextro-transposition of the great arteries were highly associated with numerous concurrent domains of neurodevelopmental function, most notably with higher (worse) scores on the Conners' Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder/Diagnostic and Statistical Manual-4th Edition Scales (parent: r = -0.62, P < .001; adolescent: r = -0.43, P < .001) and the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function Global Executive Composite (parent: r = -0.66, P < .001; adolescent: r = -0.39, P < .001). Psychosocial and physical summary scores tracked from ages 8 to 16 years (r = 0.44 and 0.47, respectively, P < .001 for each). Higher (worse) scores of multiple attention measures at age 8 years predicted worse psychosocial summary scores at age 16 years. CONCLUSIONS:Attention deficits at age 8 years were highly predictive of worse psychosocial health status in adolescence. Further studies are needed to assess whether treatment of childhood attention deficit hyperactivity disorder could improve adolescent well-being.
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