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Article Name - Effectiveness of Parent Delivered Early Movement Experience on Motor Skill Development in Preterm Low Birth Weight Infants: An Experimental Pre-Post Study

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  • Keywords Early intervention; Early movement experience; Preterm; Low birth weight ... 2025-08-11
  • Introduction Preterm low birth weight is defined as a baby born alive before 37 weeks of pregnancy and with a birth weight of less than 2500 grams. According to World Health Organisation (WHO), globally, every yea ... 2025-08-11
  • Materials and Methods In this pre-post experimental study, data were collected from September to February 2022 at Tertiary Care Hospital, Belagavi. Preterm low birth weight infants at corrected age (is premature baby's ... 2025-08-11
  • Results and Discussion Baseline characteristics of the 16 mother-infant dyads in the study: It was observed that 9 of 16 participants in the sample were females. The mean corrected age of infants at baseline was 83.87 &plus ... 2025-08-11
  • Conclusion The present study concludes that six weeks P-EME at home has a strong influence on motor skill development in preterm low birth weight infants. Preterm low birth weight infants were more likely to hav ... 2025-08-11
  • Acknowledgements We acknowledge all the parents and their infants for participating in the study and KLE Dr. Prabhakar Kore hospital and Medical Research Centre for providing the infrastructure to conduct the study. ... 2025-08-11
  • Declaration of Interest Statement The authors report there are no competing interests to declare. ... 2025-08-11
  • Author Contribution Outlined in authorship disclosure form. ... 2025-08-11
  • Funding This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors. ... 2025-08-11
  • Data Availability Data will be provided on request to the corresponding author. ... 2025-08-11
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