Association of maternal primary language with neurodevelopmental outcomes in high-risk infants.

IF 2.4 3区医学 Q2 OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY

Journal of Perinatology Pub Date : 2025-09-29 DOI:10.1038/s41372-025-02438-3

Nicole Nghiem, Maria Martes Gomez, My H Vu, Alexis Deavenport-Saman, Douglas Vanderbilt, Ashwini Lakshmanan, Sarah Wang, Ani Boodaghian, Christine B Mirzaian

{"title":"Association of maternal primary language with neurodevelopmental outcomes in high-risk infants.","authors":"Nicole Nghiem, Maria Martes Gomez, My H Vu, Alexis Deavenport-Saman, Douglas Vanderbilt, Ashwini Lakshmanan, Sarah Wang, Ani Boodaghian, Christine B Mirzaian","doi":"10.1038/s41372-025-02438-3","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Objective: Examine whether maternal primary language (English or a minoritized language) is associated with differences in infant developmental outcomes.Study design: This retrospective cohort study included 253 infants from a high-risk infant follow-up clinic at a quaternary care center in the U.S. who underwent developmental evaluation at 6, 12, and 24 months corrected age. The Bayley Scales, 3rd and 4th editions, were used to assess development.Result: At 6- and 12-month visits, the minoritized-language group had significantly lower scores than the English-language group in cognitive, language, and motor domains. By the 24-month visit, the minoritized-language group appeared to catch up in cognitive and motor domains but a significant difference in language skills persisted.Conclusion: Our findings indicate disparities in developmental outcomes, particularly in language skills at 24 months corrected age, based on maternal primary language, underscoring the need for further research to inform targeted interventions to address these disparities.","PeriodicalId":16690,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Perinatology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4000,"publicationDate":"2025-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Perinatology","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41372-025-02438-3","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Abstract

Objective: Examine whether maternal primary language (English or a minoritized language) is associated with differences in infant developmental outcomes.

Study design: This retrospective cohort study included 253 infants from a high-risk infant follow-up clinic at a quaternary care center in the U.S. who underwent developmental evaluation at 6, 12, and 24 months corrected age. The Bayley Scales, 3rd and 4th editions, were used to assess development.

Result: At 6- and 12-month visits, the minoritized-language group had significantly lower scores than the English-language group in cognitive, language, and motor domains. By the 24-month visit, the minoritized-language group appeared to catch up in cognitive and motor domains but a significant difference in language skills persisted.

Conclusion: Our findings indicate disparities in developmental outcomes, particularly in language skills at 24 months corrected age, based on maternal primary language, underscoring the need for further research to inform targeted interventions to address these disparities.

查看原文本刊更多论文

高危婴儿母语与神经发育结局的关系。

目的：探讨母亲的母语（英语或少数民族语言）是否与婴儿发育结局的差异有关。研究设计：这项回顾性队列研究包括253名来自美国一家四级护理中心高危婴儿随访诊所的婴儿，他们在矫正年龄6、12和24个月时接受了发育评估。Bayley量表，第三版和第四版，被用来评估发展。结果：在6个月和12个月的访问中，少数民族语言组在认知、语言和运动领域的得分明显低于英语组。在为期24个月的研究中，少数语言组似乎在认知和运动领域迎头赶上，但在语言技能方面仍存在显著差异。结论：我们的研究结果表明，基于母亲母语的24个月矫正年龄的发育结果存在差异，特别是在语言技能方面，强调需要进一步研究，为有针对性的干预措施提供信息，以解决这些差异。

本文章由计算机程序翻译，如有差异，请以英文原文为准。

求助全文

约1分钟内获得全文求助全文

来源期刊

Journal of Perinatology 医学-妇产科学

CiteScore

5.40

自引率

6.90%

发文量

284

审稿时长

3-8 weeks

期刊介绍： The Journal of Perinatology provides members of the perinatal/neonatal healthcare team with original information pertinent to improving maternal/fetal and neonatal care. We publish peer-reviewed clinical research articles, state-of-the art reviews, comments, quality improvement reports, and letters to the editor. Articles published in the Journal of Perinatology embrace the full scope of the specialty, including clinical, professional, political, administrative and educational aspects. The Journal also explores legal and ethical issues, neonatal technology and product development. The Journal’s audience includes all those that participate in perinatal/neonatal care, including, but not limited to neonatologists, perinatologists, perinatal epidemiologists, pediatricians and pediatric subspecialists, surgeons, neonatal and perinatal nurses, respiratory therapists, pharmacists, social workers, dieticians, speech and hearing experts, other allied health professionals, as well as subspecialists who participate in patient care including radiologists, laboratory medicine and pathologists.