As a NICU nurse I work with severely premature babies on a regular biases and in my short two year career I have seen many advancements in the technology used to treat micropremature babies. Babies who just a few years ago would have not survived are surviving in recorded numbers.
My questions is, how will being born so prematurely effect a child’s growth and development? I hypothesize that being born extremely premature will have a negative effect on growth and development. The study will be done longitudinally, it will follow a group of 600 children, 300 children born 25 weeks gestational age or younger and 300 children born 38 weeks gestational age and older. The study will take place over an 18 year period. The independent variable is the difference in gestational age, while the dependent variable or control will be that all 600 children will be from the same cohort, the number of male and female participants will be equal and they will all come from the same SES. Growth and development will be measured by biannual tests appropriate for each stage of development. Then, the data will be analyzed and findings will be made available.
2 comments:
Kris, I think your question and method of research was very well thought out! It is obvious that you are passionate about this subject, and your interest in the matter is wonderful. Your post was not only inspiring, bu very helpful to me with figuring out a way to go about initiating a method for my research question!
That actually would be a really intersting study and it was really well planned out. Great Job!
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