Table 5.

Comparison of GMDS-R quotients or BSD-III scores among 3 groups with different gestational age.

GMDS-R/BSDI-III mean values°
		Group 1 ≤28 wks Total N = 118	Group 2 28 wks + 1 day to 31 wks + 6 days Total N = 200	Group 3 >32 wks Total N = 67	Missing cases
	GMDS-R N = 208	GMDS-R N = 56	GMDS-R N = 106	GMDS-R N = 46		p ∧
Patients evaluated	Global quotient	95.6 ± 14.1	100.7 ± 13.6	101.7 ± 8.9	4	0.020
with GMDS-R*	Locomotor quotient	96.5 ± 20.3	104.2 ± 20.1	105.3 ± 16.0	2	0.029
	Personal and social quotient	98.0 ± 17.2	104.5 ± 16.0	105.3 ± 12.2	1	0.019
	Hearing and language quotient	90.4 ± 17.9	96.0 ± 17.0	96.6 ± 13.0	2	0.092
	Eye & Hand Coordination quotient	102.3 ± 14.0	104.6 ± 13.9	104.8 ± 10.2	–	0.424
	Performance quotient	95.2 ± 16.2	99.9 ± 15.7	99.5 ± 14.6	–	0.114
	BSDI-III N = 177	BSDI-III N = 62	BSDI-III N = 94	BSDI-III N = 21
Patients evaluated	Cognitive composite score	90.8 ± 11.7	96.2 ± 7.9	101.2 ± 8.8	–	<0.001
with BSDI-III*	Motor composite score	88.3 ± 12.8	93.3 ± 7.4	95.5 ± 10.8	9	0.153
	Language composite score	85.9 ± 12.4	90.1 ± 8.5	92 ± 10.3	–	0.095

Wks, weeks.

^°Patients with tetraparesis and blindness were excluded.

^*The number of patients for the different gestational age categories evaluated with BSDI-III was lower than the number of patients evaluated with GMDS-R (p = 0.037). Social-emotional score and adaptive scorewere not reported because of missing data (74/177 and 98/177, respectively).

^∧Kruskal-Wallis test.

Missing cases were excluded from the statistical analyses.

The values in bold are statistically significant (p < 0.05).