Performance of the German version of the PARCA-R questionnaire as a developmental screening tool in two-year-old very preterm infants.
Objective
To validate and test a German version of the revised Parent Report of Children's Abilities questionnaire (PARCA-R).
Methods
Multicentre cross-sectional study. Parents of infants born <32 gestational weeks, completed the PARCA-R within three weeks before the follow-up assessment of their child at age two years. Infants were assessed using the Mental Development Index (MDI) of the Bayley Scales of Infant Development 2nd edition (BSID-II). Pearson correlation between the Parent Report Composite (PRC) of the PARCA-R and MDI was tested. The optimal PRC cut-off for predicting moderate-to-severe mental delay, defined as MDI<70, was identified through the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve.
Results
PARCA-R and BSID-II data were collected from 154 consecutive infants [51% girls, mean (SD) gestational age 29.0 (2.0) weeks, birth weight 1174 (345) grams] at 23.2 (1.6) months of corrected age. The PRC score [70.5 (31.1)] correlated with the MDI [92.2 (17.3); R = 0.54; p < 0.0001]. The optimal PRC cut-off for identifying mental delay was 44 with 0.81 (0.54–0.96) sensitivity (95%-CI), 0.81 (0.74–0.87) specificity, area under the ROC curve of 0.840 (0.729–0.952).
Funding
EP was was supported by the Anna Müller Grocholski Foundation (https://neu2017.amg-stiftung.ch). GN was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (grant: PZOOP3_161146; http://www.snf.ch).
History
Citation
Picotti E, Bechtel N, Latal B, Borradori-Tolsa C, Bickle-Graz M, Grunt S, et al. (2020) Performance of the German version of the PARCA-R questionnaire as a developmental screening tool in two-year-old very preterm infants. PLoS ONE 15(9): e0236289. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0236289Version
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