Walking onset: a poor predictor for motor and cognitive skills in healthy preschool children

BMC Pediatrics

Table 2 Regression coefficients for the relationship of walking onset and several outcomes (motor skills, cognitive skills) at each of two waves and between them

	First Wave			Second Wave			Difference between second and first wave
	Coeff	SE	P	Coeff	SE	P	Coeff	SE	P
Motor skills
Fine motor	−0.861	0.279	0.002	−0.575	0.297	0.053	0.286	0.295	0.33
Pure motor	−0.524	0.318	0.11	0.623	0.337	0.07	1.147	0.419	0.006
Static balance	−0.873	0.287	0.003	−1.162	0.299	< 0.001	−0.289	0.314	0.36
Dynamic balance	−1.316	0.301	< 0.001	−1.361	0.313	< 0.001	−0.045	0.341	0.896
Associated movements	0.131	0.313	0.68	0.015	0.361	0.97	−0.116	0.411	0.78
Cognitive skills
Visual perception	−0.292	1.501	0.85	−3.556	1.549	0.02	−3.264	2.043	0.11
Selective attention	−1.613	2.594	0.53	−8.857	2.646	0.001	−7.244	3.432	0.04
Visuo-spatial memory	−0.703	0.842	0.41	−0.309	0.857	0.71	0.394	1.088	0.71
Figural reasoning	−0.605	0.837	0.47	−1.354	0.849	0.11	−0.749	1.005	0.56
Inhibitory control	0.079	0.505	0.88	−0.511	0.527	0.33	−0.591	0.602	0.33

Note: model 1: analyses controlled for SES; results did not differ when analyses were not controlled for perinatal factors

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