Improved cognitive and motor development in a community-based intervention of psychosocial stimulation in northeast Brazil

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 536-541

  Eickmann, Sophie H ^b   Lima, Ana C ^b   Guerra, Miriam Q ^b   Lima, Marlia C ^b   Lira, Pedro I C ^b   Huttly, Sharon R A ^a   Ashworth, Ann ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY CARE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIARRHEA; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEEDING; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DEVELOPMENT; MORBIDITY; MOTOR DEVELOPMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR DEVELOPMENT; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ANTHROPOMETRY; BRAZIL; CATCHMENT AREA (HEALTH); COGNITION DISORDERS; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS DISORDERS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0038298343     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0012162203000987     Document Type: Article

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