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The Relationship of Parental Knowledge to the Development of Extremely Low Birth Weight Infants.
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Dichtelmiller, Margo; And Others – Journal of Early Intervention, 1992
This study found that mothers (n=40) of extremely high-risk infants (averaging 1000 grams birthweight and 28 weeks gestational age) called upon the same experiences and sources of information as mothers of full-term infants. Infants of mothers with above average knowledge about infancy scored significantly higher on tests of infant development at…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Birth Weight, Child Development, Information Sources