Childhood Educational Outcomes of Infants Born With Esophageal Atresia With or Without Tracheoesophageal Fistula.

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• Alternative Title:
  Birth Defects Research, 2024, v. 116, no. 12: Childhood Educational Outcomes of Infants Born With Esophageal Atresia With or Without Tracheoesophageal Fistula.
• Journal Article:
  Birth Defects Research
• Personal Author:
  ElHassan, Nahed O. ; Cen, Ruiqi ; Pugh, Charles P. ; Akmyradov, Chary ; Ying PhD, Jun ; Goudie, Anthony ; Nembhard, Wendy N.
• Description:
  There are limited studies on educational outcomes of children born with esophageal atresia (EA) with or without tracheoesophageal fistula (TEF). We aimed to compare 3rd to 5th grade academic proficiency among children born with EA/TEF versus unaffected children.
  
  Children born with EA/TEF (2000-2005) were identified from the Arkansas Reproductive Health Monitoring System. For each child born with EA/TEF, up to two unaffected children were selected from birth certificates and matched on hospital and month of birth, sex, and race and ethnicity. Data on NICU hospitalization were abstracted from medical records at Arkansas' only pediatric specialty hospital. The study outcomes were 3rd to 5th grade proficiency on literacy and mathematic standardized achievement tests, referral to special education, and days of school absence. Regression models were used to assess the association of outcome measures with diagnosis of EA/TEF, after adjusting for differences in covariates between EA/TEF and unaffected children and accounting for paired correlations using the generalized estimating equation method.
  
  The final cohort included 20 surviving children born with EA/TEF and 31 unaffected children. There was no significant difference in literacy (3rd: 70% vs. 71%; 4th: 83% vs. 81%; 5th: 94% vs. 87%, p > 0.05) or mathematics proficiency (3rd: 80% vs. 87%; 4th: 83% vs. 78%; 5th: 75% vs. 78%, p > 0.05), referral to special education (20% vs. 19%, p = 0.65), or total days of school absence (47 vs. 26 days, p = 0.07) between EA/TEF and unaffected children.
  
  Children born with EA/TEF had comparable academic proficiency to unaffected children.
• Content Notes:
  Author manuscript
• Subjects:
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Female
  • Tracheoesophageal Fistula
  • Esophageal Atresia
  • Child
  • Educational Status
  • Infant
• Keywords:
  • Esophageal atresia
  • tracheoesophageal fistula
  • education
  • outcome
• Source:
  Birth Defects Research, 2024, v. 116, no. 12
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.1002/bdr2.2417
• ISSN:
  2472-1727
• Pubmed ID:
  39648647
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC13068247
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  U01 DD001229/DD/NCBDD CDC HHSUnited States/ ; U01 DD001285/DD/NCBDD CDC HHSUnited States/ ; U38 OT000199/OT/OSTLTS CDC HHSUnited States/ ; U38OT000199/the March of Dimes/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)/ ; U01 DD001306/DD/NCBDD CDC HHSUnited States/
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Arkansas
• Pages in Document:
  e2417 (14 pdf pages)
• Volume:
  116
• Issue:
  12
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/261872/cdc_261872_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 337.23 KB]
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:e411bb19f0c4482001fc38cf7d857cd83fce0727b92a4649eaece30723431d3ff3c14e8bd0344aa6eddd9e66cd925c2fc0b215977817ffe2bd55d446cd49338d