Mentor Areas
Dr. Duncan's main research interest is in long-term medical and neurodevelopmental outcomes of NICU graduates. This has included previous research in the effects of very-low-birth weight and postnatal growth on blood pressure during the first three years of life, the role of ethnic and social factors on Bayley Scales of Infant Development Cognitive and Language Scale scores in children born extremely premature, the effect of parenting style on self-regulation in children born preterm, the correlation of neuroimaging with outcomes in children born extremely preterm, motor outcomes in high-risk children, and the effects of implementation of the international guidelines for early assessment for CP on diagnoses and outcomes in high risk infants. Her current research involves evaluation of executive functioning and brain connectivity in high-risk infants and infants with CP, parenting style in high risk infant development, and the use of implementation science to translate evidence to practice.
Description:
Parental Distress following Discharge from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit as a Predictor of Neurodevelopmental Outcomes Study Aims:
- Describe the prevalence of clinically significant distress in parents of children requiring follow up in the CHOP Neonatal Follow-Up Program at Buerger with respect to:
- Type of distress, including parental depressive symptoms and post-traumatic stress symptoms
- Parent, mother or father
- Patient medical morbidities (e.g. extreme prematurity, neurologic insult, pulmonary hypoplasia, etc)
- Patient age at follow-up visit
- Describe the course of clinically significant distress over time from infancy through early childhood
- Determine the predictive relationship between parental distress at discharge and child cognition at preschool age and explore whether parental distress in toddlerhood modifies this relationship in preterm infants
The student will be involved in completing the data collection that is in process and will be responsible for adding data to existing database. Student will also be included on resulting manuscripts.
Preferred Qualifications
Prior experience with medical record review and data collection is preferred.
Details:
Preferred Student Year
First-year, Second-Year, Junior, Senior
Academic Term
Fall, Spring, Summer
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Yes
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No
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