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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Jun 7.
Published in final edited form as: J Dev Behav Pediatr. 2004 Apr;25(2):83–90. doi: 10.1097/00004703-200404000-00002

Table 4.

Seven-Year Outcomes Correlated with Birth Data

VMI Visual Perception Motor Coordination WISC Verbal WISC Performance WISC Full Scale Gross Motor Fine Motor Motor Total

Test age −0.08 −0.04 −0.07 0.00 −0.00 −0.00 −0.05 −0.14** −0.11*
Weight (z score) 0.02 0.12* 0.05 0.15** 0.09 0.13** −0.03 −0.04 0.01
Height (z score) 0.05 0.04 0.01 0.08 0.08 0.09 −0.03 −0.01 −0.01
Head circumference (z score) 0.12* 0.07 0.01 0.08 0.07 0.09 −0.01 0.10 0.02
Maternal agea −0.02 −0.01 −0.07 −0.01 −0.05 −0.04 −0.14** −0.24*** −0.18***
Maternal educationa 0.20** 0.11 0.08 0.22** 0.14* 0.21** −0.08 0.13 0.01
Parity 0.15** −0.10 −0.07 −0.19** −0.19** −0.21*** 0.01 −0.11* −0.06
Prenatal visit 0.13* −0.03 0.10 0.11 0.12* 0.13* −0.01 0.16** 0.10
Family income −0.05 0.09*** 0.07 0.16** 0.12 0.16** 0.07 0.06 0.09
Time w/ parent 0.04 −0.03 −0.06 −0.01 −0.03 0.02 −0.02 0.02 0.01
Maternal PPVTa 0.27 0.20*** 0.21*** 0.27 0.33 0.33 −0.02 0.19*** 0.09
Home total 0.14** 0.07 0.20*** 0.34 0.17** 0.29 0.11 0.18*** 0.16**
Gender 0.15** −0.03 −0.04 0.08 0.14** 0.13** 0.22*** 0.06 0.22***
Cocaineb −0.26*** −0.08 −0.08 −0.18* −0.19** −0.20** −0.15 −0.32 −0.26***
Tobaccob −0.19** −0.07 −0.09 −0.09 −0.13 −0.12 −0.03 −0.16* −0.11
Alcoholb −0.15 −0.06 −0.06 −0.05 −0.12 −0.10 0.06 −0.25*** −0.10
Marijuanab −0.13 0.02 0.09 0.03 −0.14 −0.06 −0.13 −0.11 −0.15*

PPVT, Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test; VMI, Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration; WISC, Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children.

a

Maternal refers to the biological mother.

b

All drug correlations are based on the subsample of 114 children with drug interviews.

*

p < .10

**

p < .05

***

p < .01

p < .001.