Early Life Experiences and Trajectories of Cognitive Development.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Multiple factors constrain the trajectories of child cognitive development, but the drivers that differentiate the trajectories are unknown. We examine how multiple early life experiences differentiate patterns of cognitive development over the first 5 years of life in low-and middle-income settings.

Methods

Cognitive development of 835 children from the Etiology, Risk Factors, and Interactions of Enteric Infections and Malnutrition and the Consequences for Child Health and Development (MAL-ED) multisite observational cohort study was assessed at 6, 15, 24 (Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development), and 60 months (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence). Markers of socioeconomic status, infection, illness, dietary intake and status, anthropome

SUBMITTER: McCormick BJJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7461241 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature