Assessing infant cognition in field settings using eye-tracking: a pilot cohort trial in Sierra Leone.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To investigate the feasibility of eye-tracking-based testing of the speed of visual orienting in malnourished young children at rural clinics in Sierra Leone.

Design

Prospective dual cohort study nested in a cluster-randomised trial.

Setting

8 sites participating in a cluster-randomised trial of supplementary feeding for moderate acute malnutrition (MAM).

Participants

For the MAM cohort, all infants aged 7-11 months at the eight sites were enrolled, 138 altogether. For controls, a convenience sample of all non-malnourished infants aged 7-11 months at the same sites were eligible, 60 altogether. A sample of 30 adults at the sites also underwent eye-tracking tests as a further control.

Interventions

Infants with MAM were provided with supplement

SUBMITTER: Leppanen JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8860005 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature