I am thinking of using the Peabody Developmental Motor Scales-2 to assess motor development in very preterm infants
I think this depends on what age the infants are when you begin testing them.
Are you looking for a change over time or just a comparison to the norm reference? The Peabody is a good discriminative test and is used a lot in physical therapy to determine if a child is developing atypically it is not great at showing whether treatment or an intervention is effective.
I would like to be able to derive norm-referenced scores and also to use it for an outcome measure for motor development in an RCT, so this sounds ideal. I had looked and there are few items in scome sub-scales with a good deal of overlap so I was a little concerned about poor discrimination across ages, but all the children will (hopefully) be assessed around the same age. Thank you for your response.
Peabody scale separately in 16 age group and from birth to 83 months assess gross and fine motor skills.
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