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April 17, 2026Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental HealthOpen Access

Subclinical but significant: A multi-informant comparative study on early socio-emotional difficulties in preterm preschoolers

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RBRowena Van den BroeckLGLisa GistelinckBBBieke Bollen

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Overview

Examines socio-emotional challenges in preterm preschoolers, emphasizing the need for multi-informant assessments to identify vulnerabilities.

Key Points

  • The aim is to explore the socio-emotional difficulties in preterm preschoolers and their relationship with early medical experiences.
  • Comparison between 70 preterm and 32 full-term children using standardized measures
  • Utilization of parent and teacher questionnaires and direct clinical observations
  • Assessments focused on behavioral profiles and mental health outcomes
  • Analyses investigated associations with gestational age, birth weight, and NICU experiences
  • Preterm preschoolers displayed a subclinical phenotype with elevated difficulties in various domains
  • Parents reported more internalizing symptoms, attention deficits, and social-communication challenges in preterm children
  • Teacher ratings were more associated with gestational age and birth weight
  • NICU experiences, like procedural pain exposure, correlated with higher behavioral problems

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Broeck et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69e1cfcb5cdc762e9d858cc2https://doi.org/10.1186/s13034-026-01082-9
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