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## Background The study deals with the characteristics of temperament of preterm infants during their preschool age in order to not only investigate likely "difficult or problematic profiles", guided by impairments driven by their preterm birth, but also to provide guidelines for the activation of interventions of prevention, functional to improve the quality of preterm infant's life. ## Methods The study involved a group of 105 children where 50 preterm children at the average age of 5 years and 2 months, enrolled in preschools of Palermo. The research planned the child reference teachers to be administered a specific questionnaire, the QUIT, made up of 60 items investigating six specific typical dimensions of temperament (__Motor control activity__ - related to the ability of practicing motor control activity; __Attention__ - related to the ability of guiding and keeping the focus of attention on a certain stimulus; __Inhibition to novelty__ - regarding with emotional reactivity in front of environmental stimuli; __Social orientation__ - meant in terms of attention and interest towards social stimuli; __Positive and negative emotionality__ - regarding the tendency to mainly expre

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Author

Giovanna Perricone; M Regina Morales

Publisher

BioMed Central; Springer (Biomed Central Ltd.); Pisa: Pacini editore, [2001]-; London: 2008-; Springer Science and Business Media LLC (ISSN 1824-7288)

Published

2011

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)