ABSTRACT
Objective To compare predicting validity of general movements (GMs) assessment for neurodevelopment outcome of high-risk premature infants in different gestational age. Methods 180 participants were divided into group A (28 to 31+6 gestational weeks), group B (32 to 33+6 gestational weeks) and group C (34 to 36+6 gestational weeks) according to gestational age, and evaluated by GMs assess-ments in the stage of writhing-movement and fidgety-movement respectively. They were evaluated with GMs assessment and Gesell devel-opmental scale, and cerebral palsy was diagnosed clinically. Results 133 infants were normal and 47 infants with developmental delay, in which 10 were with cerebral palsy. The sensitivity was 40.4%, the specificity was 90.2%, the positive predictive value was 59.4%, the nega-tive predictive value was 81.1% in the stage of writhing-movement; and it was 27.7%, 99.2%, 92.9% and 79.5% in the stage of fidg-ety-movement, respectively. There was no significantly difference in the detection rate among different age groups (P=0.610, P=0.765, P=0.290). Conclusion The absent fidgety-movement (F-) is the highest, and cramped-synchronized (CS) is the secondly to predict the motor de-velopmental outcome. There was no difference of GMs assessment to detect the neurodevelopmental outcome in premature infants of 28 to 36+6 gestational weeks.