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The Effect of Birth Weight on Child Development Prior to School Entry
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Hines, Caitlin T.; Padilla, Christina M.; Ryan, Rebecca M. – Child Development, 2020
The present study examines variation in the effect of birth weight on children's early cognitive and socioemotional outcomes by family socioeconomic status (SES). It is hypothesized that not only will lower birth weight children display worse cognitive and socioemotional outcomes prior to school entry, as prior research has found, but that effects…
Descriptors: Body Weight, Birth, Preschool Children, Social Development
The Relationship of Socioeconomic Status and Sex to Body Size, Skeletal Maturation, and Cognitive Status of Guatemala City Schoolchildren.
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Bogin, Barry; MacVean, Robert B. – Child Development, 1983
Longitudinal data from a study of child development in Guatemala City were used to describe the influence of socioeconomic status and sex on physical and cognitive growth status. The correlation between growth status variables was also analyzed. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Body Height, Body Weight, Cognitive Development, Foreign Countries
Long-Term Effects of Food Supplementation and Psychosocial Intervention on the Physical Growth of Colombian Infants at Risk of Malnutrition.
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Super, Charles M.; And Others – Child Development, 1990
At 3 years of age, children who had received food supplementation were an average of 2.6 cm and 642 grams larger than controls. Home visiting and supplementation combined reduced the number of children with severe growth retardation. Participants were 280 infants and their families from poor neighborhoods in Bogota, Colombia. (RH)
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Body Height, Body Weight, Cognitive Development