The trajectory of balance skill development from childhood to adolescence was influenced by birthweight: a latent transition analysis in a British birth cohort

Author(s)

Martins Okuda, Paola Matiko ^[1] ; Swardfager, Walter ^{[2, 3]} ; Lucio, Patricia Silva ^[4] ; Ploubidis, George B. ^[5] ; Liu, Ting ^[6] ; Pangelinan, Melissa ^[7] ; Cogo-Moreira, Hugo ^{[1, 8]}

Affiliation

^[1] Univ Fed Sao Paulo, Dept Psychiat & Med Psychol, Sao Paulo - Brazil

^[2] Univ Toronto, Dept Pharmacol & Toxicol, Toronto, ON - Canada

^[3] Sunnybrook Res Inst, Hurvitz Brain Sci Program, Toronto, ON - Canada

^[4] Univ Estadual Londrina, Dept Psychol & Psychoanal, Londrina, PR - Brazil

^[5] UCL, Inst Educ, Dept Social Sci, London - England

^[6] Texas State Univ, Dept Hlth & Human Performance, San Marcos, TX - USA

^[7] Auburn Univ, Sch Kinesiol, Auburn, AL 36849 - USA

^[8] Free Univ Berlin, Dept Educ & Psychol, Div Methods & Evaluat, Berlin - Germany

• Document type: Journal article
• Source: JOURNAL OF CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY; v. 109, p. 12-19, MAY 2019.
• Web of Science Citations: 0

Abstract

Objective: To identify classes of balance skills and their trajectories from childhood to adolescence and the association of birthweight with these trajectories. Study Design and Setting: Participants (n = 13,443) from the 1970 British Cohort Study were assessed for four balance skills in childhood and adolescence. Latent class analysis was used to determine classes of balance skills over time, and latent transition analysis was used to explain the association between birthweight and the probabilities of changing classes over time. Results: A three-class solution, good balance skills (GBS) group, intermediate in balance skills (IBS) group, and poor balance skills (PBS) group, best fit the data for both childhood and adolescence. Most (49.97%, n = 6.713) had GBS in childhood and GBS in adolescence; the probability of ``staying{''} as GBS was 86%. Birthweight was associated with higher likelihood of remaining GBS at adolescence (OR = 1.82, 95% CI = 1.40-2.37). Those who were classified as IBS and PBS in childhood had 75.2% and 62.7% probability of becoming GBS in adolescence, respectively. A small percentage of children stayed in the PBS group (1.92%, n = 258), with probability of remaining as such being 15.1%. Conclusions: The higher the birthweight, the better the outcomes in those with GBS and IBS in the childhood. However, although small proportion of children stayed at the lowest level of balance skills in adolescence, some clinical attention should be given to those classified at this level in childhood. (C) 2018 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 17/04935-5 - 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
• Grantee: Paola Matiko Martins Okuda
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• FAPESP's process: 16/50195-0 - Health and abilities measurement in population surveys: an application of the generalized latent variable modeling framework to high dimensional data
• Grantee: Hugo Cogo Moreira
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• FAPESP's process: 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
• Grantee: Paola Matiko Martins Okuda
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate