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Objective:To explore the ability of the Hammersmith Infant Neurological Examination (HINE) to predict the gross motor development of high-risk infants.Methods:A total of 207 high-risk infants were assessed with the HINE and the Gesell Developmental Schedule (GDS) at the ages of 3, 6, 9 and 12 months. They were then divided into a normal development group and a delayed group according to their gross motor development at 12 months old. The validity of the HINE′s discrimination was quantified retrospectively as the difference in the total HINE score at each follow-up month between the two groups. Spearman coefficients relating the total HINE score with the gross motor development quotient from the GDS were calculated at each follow-up month. The HINE′s total score threshold for predicting gross motor retardation at 12 months was determined from a receiver operating characteristics curve, and the predictive validity, sensitivity and specificity were evaluated by calculating the area under the curve.Results:At each time point the average total HINE score of the delayed group was significantly lower than the normal group′s average. The correlation between the HINE total scores and the GDS gross motor development quotients was strongest at 6 months old, and weakest at 3 months. The threshold total HINE score for predicting gross motor retardation at 12 months old was 60 at 3 months, 67 at 6 months, and then 71. The instrument′s sensitivity and specificity were very good at all four time points.Conclusion:The HINE can usefully predict gross motor retardation in the first year of life for high-risk infants. The critical value of the total score can be used as an auxiliary diagnostic reference for neuromotor development in such infants.
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Objective To explore the effect of Jin's three-needle therapy, as an assistant treatment, in improving the intelligence of children with mental retardation (MR).Method Seventy-six MR patients were divided into a control group and an observationgroup, 38 cases in each group.The control group was treated with rehabilitation, while the observation group with JIN's three needle therapy plus the rehabilitation training.Prof. JIN Rui's 10-item observation index was adopted to evaluate the memory ofthe patients before and after the treatment; Gesell Developmental Schedule (GDS) was used to measure the intelligence before and after the treatment. The clinical efficacies in the two groups were statistically analyzed.Result After the treatment, Prof.JIN Rui's 10-item index scores dropped obviously and the GDS scores increased significantly in both groups, while the decrease and increase of scores in the observation group were more significant than those in the control group (P<0.05). The total effective rate was 94.7% in the observation group, significantly higher than 71.1% in the control group (P<0.05).Conclusion As an assistant treatment, JIN's three-needle therapy can help rehabilitation training to improve the intelligence of MR patients.
