Trajectories of child growth, child development, and home child-rearing quality during the Covid pandemic in rural Nepal.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Children, especially disadvantaged children in poor countries, were expected to be among the "biggest victims" of the Covid pandemic. Economic burdens, decreased nutritious foods, reduced medical care, school closures, and ill-health or death of family members were predicted to increase child undernutrition and developmental delays, and diminish home child-rearing quality.

Methods

A planned nutrition intervention could not be implemented due to Covid restrictions. However, three surveys (pre-Covid [December 2019], July 2021, and September 2021) in 280 Nepali households (309 parent-dyads, 368 children, 6-66 months old) collected demographics, child anthropometry and development (Ages and Stages Questionnaire-3 [ASQ-3]), and home child-rearing quality (caregiver eng

SUBMITTER: Miller LC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9877676 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature