Psychometric characteristics of the neonatal oral-motor assessment scale in healthy preterm infants

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 915-919

  Howe, Tsu Hsin ^a   Sheu, Ching Fan ^b   Hsieh, Yu Wei ^c   Hsieh, Ching Lin ^c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BOTTLE FEEDING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEONATAL ORAL MOTOR ASSESSMENT SCALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; SUCKING; VALIDATION STUDY; VALIDITY;

BREAST FEEDING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; MALE; NEONATAL SCREENING; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 36549061135     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: 14698749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.2007.00915.x     Document Type: Article

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