Neonatal measures of attention and early cognitive status.
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.
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School of Nursing, University of Wisconsin-Madison 53792.
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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