G166 Usefullness of social emotional and adaptive behaviour as part of two year neurodevelopmental assessments

Introduction Neurodevelopmental outcome assessment provides basis for benchmarking and early intervention. Bayleys scale of infant development (BSID) is often used in 2 year assessments of high-risk infants, however there are time constraints in completing these assessments. Social, emotional and adaptive processes like self regulation and executive function which are increasingly being shown to predict later life and behaviour outcomes are often not captured in these assessments. Aim To study if completion of social emotional and adaptive questionnaire of BSIDIII will be useful as part of the 2 year assessments. Methods Social-emotional/adaptive parental questionnaire was given for all preterms born Results 19/48 (40%) who returned the questionnaire had 2 year assessments at a mean age of 25 months. Table 1 shows the mean composite scores of different scales. There was significant correlation with general adaptive composite (GAC) and motor composite (p=0.04, 95% CI −1.29 to −0.33). A significant correlation was also seen with language composite and social adaptive domain (p=0.042, 95% CI −0.7 and −0.15). There was no correlation seen with social emotional scale and motor/language/cognitive scales. Conclusion Parental questionnaire using the social-emotional and adapative behaviour items can be used as screening tool to identify high-risk infants requiring speech and physiotherapy intervention. This may allow streamlining of clinics that run the 2 year assessments. This data needs to be validated with a larger cohort.