Identifying patterns of changing on fine motor and balance skills from childhood to adolescence conditioned to perinatal measurements: applying latent transitional analysis to two British large cohort studies

• Grant number: 17/04935-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Start date: November 01, 2017
• End date: January 09, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Medicine - Psychiatry
• Principal Investigator: Hugo Cogo Moreira
• Grantee: Paola Matiko Martins Okuda
• Supervisor: George B. Ploubidis
• Host Institution: Escola Paulista de Medicina (EPM). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus São Paulo. São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: University College London (UCL), England
• Associated to the scholarship: 15/04619-0 - Psychometric analysis of two motor assessment tests Movement Assessment Batery for children, second edition - MABC-2 and Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency: applying factorial analysis, latent class and hybrids (mixture) models, BP.DR

Abstract

This research project has as objectives to verify the impact of perinatal measurements at different moments of the two cohorts in terms of fine motor and balance skills and to evaluate whether the probability of having fine motor and balance problems from childhood to adolescence would be conditioned to perinatal issues such as birth weight. Method: We will use data from the 1958 National Child Development Study (NCDS) (sweeps 1, 2 and 3), composed by children age 7, age 11 and age 16, respectively, and the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS) (sweeps 1, 3 and 4), composed by children with birth age, age 10 and age 16, respectively, to analyze how the association between family characteristics and child's characteristics on birth, as weight, with motor skills have changed over time. Statistical Analysis: The data will be statistically analyzed by latent class analysis (LCA) and latent transition analysis (LTA).

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

MARTINS OKUDA, PAOLA MATIKO; SWARDFAGER, WALTER; LUCIO, PATRICIA SILVA; PLOUBIDIS, GEORGE B.; LIU, TING; PANGELINAN, MELISSA; COGO-MOREIRA, HUGO. The trajectory of balance skill development from childhood to adolescence was influenced by birthweight: a latent transition analysis in a British birth cohort. JOURNAL OF CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY, v. 109, p. 12-19, MAY 2019. (17/04935-5, 16/50195-0, 15/04619-0)

MARTINS OKUDA, PAOLA MATIKO; SWARDFAGER, WALTER; PLOUBIDIS, GEORGE B.; PANGELINAN, MELISSA; COGO-MOREIRA, HUGO. Influence of birthweight on childhood balance: Evidence from two British birth cohorts. EARLY HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, v. 130, p. 116-120, MAR 2019. (17/04935-5, 15/04619-0)