Relationship between Delivery Gestational Age, Birth Weight and Fidgety Movement
Abstract： Objective To investigate the relationship between the delivery gestational age, birth weight and fidgety movement. Methods 81 infants in fidgety movement phase were divided into preterm group and full-term group according to their delivery gestational age, into<2500 g group and ≥2500 g group according to their birth weight. The number of different kinds of General Movements (GMs) was com-pared. The correlation between birth weight, delivery of gestational age and GMs was analysed. Results The number of fidgety movement was more in the full-term group than in the preterm group (P=0.001), while the number of absence of fidgety movement was significantly less (P=0.003). The number of fidgety movement was more in the≥2500 g group than in the<2500 g group (P=0.001), the number of ab-sence of fidget movement was significantly less (P=0.003). The GMs was correlated with birth weight and delivery gestational age. Conclu-sion Premature and low birth weight are the risk factors for abnormal fidgety movement.
Keywords：fidgety movementprematurelow birth weightinfants
Publication Date：2013-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：2( 669-670 )