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An evaluation of Intellectual and emotional functioning has been done in 90 LEW subjects( ≤ 2000 gr.) and 40 controls, using an Intelligence Test and a Childpsychiatrie interview. The LBW subjects form a heterogeneous group as far as medical history, social background and psychological climate within the families are concerned. One LBW group (17 boys, 33 girls)born in 1969/70 has been examined at the age of 5 years; another, group(16 boys, 24 girls) born in 1972 has been seen at the age of 3 years, together with a matched control group of normal BW. On the SON (a Dutch nonverbal-intelligence-test) 50 five years old LBW subjects obtained the scores the mean of which did not differ from the Dutch population mean. 3 years old LBW children performed less well than the controls on the (Stutman) Intelligence Test(P=< .001). In both LBW groups and in the Control group boys did significantly less well than girls.
On the results of Childpsychiatric interview: in the 5-years-olds group the girls are, functioning better than the boys. At least half of the children present with obvious immaturity with regard to object relationships and ego strength. The 3-years-olds as a group have clear problems with the steps of the individuation-separation phase - are markedly different from the control group in this regard.
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Skodova, C., Raeymaecker, D. & Visser, H. 125: A study of development in LBW children. Pediatr Res 10, 891 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1203/00006450-197610000-00116
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