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Pre‐ and Perinatal Factors and the Risk of Subsequent Referral for Hyperactivity
Author(s) -
Chandola C. A.,
Robling M. R.,
Peters T. J.,
MelvilleThomas G.,
McGuffin P.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
journal of child psychology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.652
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1469-7610
pISSN - 0021-9630
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1992.tb00926.x
Subject(s) - referral , psychology , psychiatry , attention deficit hyperactivity disorder , risk factor , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , medicine , family medicine
Possible pre‐ and perinatal risk factors for subsequent referral for hyperactivity were assessed by comparing birth records of 129 referrals with the remaining 24,656 members of a geographically defined birth cohort. Relationships between the risk factors were accounted for using logistic regression methods. The significant factors were: social class, maternal age, antepartum haemorrhage, length of labour (second stage), 1‐min Apgar and sex. Associations between referral for hyperactivity and the pregnancy, labour and birth outcome factors were not explained by the socio‐demographic variables. The results suggest that such factors have a statistically significant association with referral for hyperactivity and may be of modest aetiological importance. However, the predictive power of the final set of factors remained low even on the original data set.