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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Pediatr. 2018 Sep 21;203:177–184.e1. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2018.07.110

Table 5.

Predictors of Cognitive, Language and Motor Development among VPT Children Between Age 2 and 5 Years (n = 83)

Base Model Final Model LMM
β p β p p
Cognitive Development R2 (5, 77 ) = .11, p = .11 R2 (6, 76 ) = .15, p = .04
 Medical Risk Index −.07 .51 −.08 .46 .21
 Sex .13 .23 .10 .35 .71
 White Matter Abnormalities .25 .03 −.23 .04 .03
 Cognitive Ability at Age 2 −.05 .67 −.05 .69 .99
 Social Risk Index −.15 .20 −.16 .16 .34
 Intervention Service utilization - - −.21 .05 .06
Language Development R2 (5, 52) = .14, p = .16 R2 (7, 50 ) = .27, p = .02
 Medical Risk Index −.11 .41 −.10 .42 .57
 Sex .05 .69 .08 .53 .13
 White Matter Abnormalities −.10 .46 −.03 .83 .63
 Language Ability at age 2 .12 .38 .05 .72 .50
 Social Risk Index −.27 .04 −.01 .94 .94
 Maternal Affective Involvement - - −.32 .01 .03
 Maternal Intellectual Ability - - .35 .05 .04
Motor Development R2 (5, 77) = .21, p = .002 R2 (6, 76) = .27, p < .001
 Medial Risk Index −0.14 .18 −0.19 .07 .38
 Sex 0.09 .37 0.07 .47 .19
 White Matter Abnormalities −0.30 .007 −0.27 .01 .01
 Motor Ability at Age 2 −0.38 .001 −0.37 .001 .005
 Social Risk Index −0.06 .56 −0.05 .64 .45
 Maternal Behavioral Control - - 0.25 .01 .21

Note. LMM p-value: Linear Mixed-Effect Model with family clustering entered as a random factor with intercept.