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Determinants of Cognitive Development in the Early Life of Children in Bhaktapur, Nepal
| العنوان: | Determinants of Cognitive Development in the Early Life of Children in Bhaktapur, Nepal |
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| المؤلفون: | Ranjitkar, Suman, Hysing, Mari, Kvestad, Ingrid, Shrestha, Merina, Ulak, Manjeswori, Shilpakar, Jaya Shree, Sintakala, Roshan, Chandyo, Ram Krishna, Shrestha, Laxman, Strand, Tor A |
| المصدر: | Frontiers in Psychology |
| بيانات النشر: | Frontiers |
| سنة النشر: | 2020 |
| المجموعة: | University of Bergen: Bergen Open Research Archive (BORA-UiB) |
| الوصف: | Background: Children in low and middle income countries may have many risk factors for poor cognitive development, and are accordingly at a high risk of not reaching their developmental potential. Determinants for cognitive development in early life can be found among biological and socioeconomic factors, as well as in stimulation and learning opportunities. Objective: The present study aimed to identify determinants of cognitive, language and motor development in 6-11 months old Nepalese infants. Methods: Six hundred infants with a length-for-age z-score <-1 were assessed with the Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler development, 3rd edition (Bayley-III). Information on socioeconomic factors, child and maternal demographics, clinical and biological factors, and the home environment were collected. In a manual stepwise variable selection procedure, we examined the association between selected biological, socioeconomic and stimulation and learning opportunity variables and the Bayley-III cognitive, language and motor development subscale scores in multiple linear regression models. Results: The length-for-age z-scores was positively associated with the cognitive composite score [standardized beta (ß): 0.22, p < 0.001] and the motor composite score [(ß): 0.14, p = 0.001]. Children born with low birth weight (<2500 g) scored significantly lower on all subscale scores. Diarrheal history was associated with poor language composite scores, and females had higher language composite scores than boys [(ß): 0.11, p = 0.015]. Children who had been hospitalized during the first month of life had also lower cognitive and motor composite scores than those who had not been hospitalized. Parental reports of physical punishment and lack of spontaneous vocalization were associated with poor cognitive and language composite scores, respectively. The statistical models with the various subscale scores as dependent variables explained between 8 to 16 percent of the variability in the cognitive developmental outcomes. ... |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
| وصف الملف: | application/pdf |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 1664-1078 |
| Relation: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6915069/pdf/fpsyg-10-02739.pdf; urn:issn:1664-1078; https://hdl.handle.net/1956/23384; https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02739; cristin:1768017 |
| DOI: | 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02739 |
| الاتاحة: | https://hdl.handle.net/1956/23384 https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02739 |
| Rights: | Attribution CC BY ; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ; Copyright 2019 The Authors |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.60D2553E |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 16641078 |
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| DOI: | 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02739 |