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A population-based prospective birth cohort study of childhood neurocognitive and psychological functioning in healthy survivors of early life meningitis

Khandaker, Golam M., Stochl, Jan, Zammit, Stanley ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2647-9211, Lewis, Glyn and Jones, Peter B. 2015. A population-based prospective birth cohort study of childhood neurocognitive and psychological functioning in healthy survivors of early life meningitis. Annals of Epidemiology 25 (4) , pp. 236-242. 10.1016/j.annepidem.2014.11.013

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Abstract

Purpose To determine neurocognitive, educational, and psychological functioning during childhood and early adolescence among survivors of early life meningitis who are apparently healthy. Methods In the general population-based Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children birth cohort, meningitis exposure was determined at age of 18 months. The outcomes of intelligence quotient, short-term memory, working memory, reading and spelling abilities, psychological and behavioral problems, depressive and anxiety symptoms, and psychotic experiences at ages 9 to 13 years were compared between those exposed and unexposed to meningitis. Individuals with special educational needs were excluded. Results By age of 18 months, 67 of 11,035 children were reported to have suffered from meningitis (0.61%). These children, compared with the unexposed, performed worse on all neurocognitive and educational measures; mean difference in total intelligence quotient 7.36 (95% confidence interval, 1.60–13.11). Meningitis was associated with higher depressive and anxiety symptoms (P = .02), psychological and behavioral problems (P = .09), and increased risk of psychotic experiences; risk ratio 2.22 (95% confidence interval, 1.12–4.38). Conclusions Exposure to meningitis in the early life is associated with neurocognitive, educational, and psychological difficulties during childhood and early adolescence among survivors who are apparently healthy. Therefore, focusing only on serious neurologic disabilities may underestimate the true impact of early life meningitis.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Medicine
Subjects: R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
R Medicine > RJ Pediatrics
Uncontrolled Keywords: Meningitis, Central nervous system infections, Intelligence, Memory, Educational achievement, Affective symptoms, Behavioral problems, Psychotic experience, Depression, Anxiety, Psychosis
Publisher: Elsevier
ISSN: 1047-2797
Date of Acceptance: 5 November 2014
Last Modified: 31 Oct 2022 10:40
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/85685

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