Early combined rehabilitation intervention to improve the short-term prognosis of premature infants

BMC Pediatrics

Table 6 Comparison of the neuromuscular scores in the Ballard scores analysis

Group	start time	first week	second week	third week	F-value	P-value
The intervention group	17.23 ± 3.18	18.73 ± 1.72	20.00 ± 1.72	21.41 ± 1.87	30.571	0.000^d
The control group	16.10 ± 2.43	16.24 ± 2.31	16.48 ± 2.20	17.97 ± 2.24	30.571	0.000^d
F-value	2.056	17.896	34.446	38.446	2.817	0.049^c
P-value	0.158^a	0.000^b	0.000^b	0.000^b	2.817	0.049^c

^a Ballard scores in the intervention group and the control group at the beginning of the intervention group showed no significant difference(P > 0.05)
^b The comparison of each time period within the group showed that the difference was statistically significant (P < 0.05)
^c There was an interaction between the test time and the group (P < 0.05)
^d The Ballard scores of the two groups at different times were significantly different (P < 0.05)

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