Cerebral palsy: Evaluation of a model of risk | Zendy

Polivka Barbara J. | Zendy; Nickel Jennie T. | Zendy; Wilkins J. R. | Zendy

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Cerebral palsy: Evaluation of a model of risk

Author(s) -

Polivka Barbara J.,

Nickel Jennie T.,

Wilkins J. R.

Publication year - 1993

Publication title -

research in nursing and health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.836

H-Index - 85

eISSN - 1098-240X

pISSN - 0160-6891

DOI - 10.1002/nur.4770160206

Subject(s) - cerebral palsy , medicine , miscarriage , univariate , gestational age , birth weight , multivariate analysis , univariate analysis , population , apgar score , pediatrics , pregnancy , retrospective cohort study , multivariate statistics , obstetrics , physical therapy , surgery , statistics , environmental health , mathematics , biology , genetics

The purpose of this study was to assess a model of risk for cerebral palsy (CP) in preschool children. The research was structured as a retrospective case‐control study in which cases ( n ‐ 112) were children with CP while controls ( n = 153) were either friend referrals or populationbased. Data were collected via structured telephone interviews. While significant associations with CP were found on univariate analyses for a number of variables, only four variables–birth weight/gestational age, 5‐min APGAR, medication for miscarriage, and urinary tract infection during pregnancy–were found predictive in multivariate analysis. These variables accounted for 36% of the log‐likelihood explained by the model. © 1993 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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