title: Neonatal measures of attention and early cognitive status.
abstract: Measures of infant attention may be more indicative of cognitive status than scores from standardized developmental tests. The purpose of this study of 56 full-term infants was to determine whether measures of attention taken from the Brazelton Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scales (NBAS) at 2 days and the Bayley Infant Behavior Record (IBR) at 2 months would be internally consistent and would be related to developmental status at 2 months. Attention measures were internally consistent. The IBR measure was significantly related to 2-month developmental status; the NBAS measure was not. Results support attention as an important focus for nursing assessment of development.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, University of Wisconsin-Madison 53792.
authors.forename: P T
authors.initials: PT
authors.lastname: Becker
authors.forename: R P
authors.initials: RP
authors.lastname: Lederman
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Lederman
mesh_terms: D001288:Attention; D001341:Autonomic Nervous System; D002657:Child Development; D003071:Cognition; D006185:Habituation, Psychophysiologic; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D009730:Nursing Assessment / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D009949:Orientation; D011594:Psychometrics; D012018:Reflex