Intervention experiences among children with congenital and neonatal conditions impacting brain development: patterns of service utilization, barriers and future directions
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Abstract
OBJECTIVE: The current study examined reported patterns of utilization and barriers to early and school-age interventions, as well as directions for future care, among families of children with congenital or neonatal conditions with known-risk for poor neurocognitive development. The impact of the child's severity of injury, condition and adaptive functioning, as well as family sociodemographic factors were considered. METHODS: The sample included 62 parents (53 mothers, 5 fathers, 4 mother-father pairs) of children diagnosed with neonatal stroke, hypoxia ischemic encephalopathy (HIE), and congenital heart disease (CHD) ranging in age between 3 to 9 years (mean age = 4.5 years, SD = 1.82). RESULTS: In this sample, approximately 80% of children were reported to have had utilized one or more therapies. The most frequent services utilized included: (a) speech and language therapy, (b) occupational therapy, and (c) physical therapy. Less than 10% of sample reported utilizing any psychological therapies. Common family barriers to all interventions included time off work, lack of childcare, and transportation. Parents of children with more severe injury or condition reported that their children were utilizing a greater number of interventions and also perceived a greater number of barriers. Over half of the parents expressed a need for more parent support groups, remote psychosocial services, and individualized psychological therapy for themselves or their family. CONCLUSIONS: Findings highlight patterns of utilization and perceived gaps in early and school-age interventions for children with congenital or neonatal conditions that impact neurodevelopment. Direction for clinical care and improved intervention opportunities are discussed.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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