Nutritional status and effective verbal communication in Peruvian children: A secondary analysis of the 2019 Demographic and Health Survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To estimate the impact of stunting on the development of effective verbal communication (EVC) in children aged 24 to 36 months.

Methods

We conducted a retrospective, quasi-experimental study design using data from 4452 children between 24 and 36 months of age available in the Early Childhood Development (ECD) section of the Demographic and Family Health Survey (ENDES) 2019 survey. Achievement of EVC was considered as the dependent variable. After propensity score matching analysis, a total 601 children were included in the exposed (children with stunting) and 3848 in the unexposed group (children without stunting). The psmatch2 Stata software command was used to estimate the impact of stunting on EVC with a level of 5% for significance.

Results

The EVC indi

SUBMITTER: Hernandez-Vasquez A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7891687 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature