Nutritional and socioeconomic status in cognitive development of Santal children of Purulia district, India

Annals of Human Biology

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 188-193

  Dutta Chowdhury, Sutanu ^a   Ghosh, Tusharkanti ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA   (India)

Author keywords

Cognitive development; Cognitive function; Nutritional status; Under nutrition

Indexed keywords

AGE CLASS; CHILD; COGNITION; GROWTH CURVE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; VULNERABILITY;

AGE; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; COGNITION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; INDIA; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMICS;

AGE FACTORS; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; FEMALE; GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; INDIA; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

INDIA; PURULIA; WEST BENGAL;

EID: 79551494485     PISSN: 03014460     EISSN: 14645033     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/03014460.2010.506887     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. Armstrong J, Dorosty AR, Reilly JJ, Emmett PM. 2003. Coexistence of social inequalities in undernutrition and obesity in preschool children: Population based cross sectional study. Arch Dis Child 88: 671-675.
2. ASECA report: Editorial. 2007. National focus group on problems of schedule caste and schedule tribe children. ASECA Channel 6(7): 1-4.
3. Aziz F, Sarshar A, Nafarabadi M, Ghazi A, Kimiagar M. 1993. Impairment of neuromotor and cognitive development in iodinedeficient school children with normal physical growth. Acta Endocrinol 129:497-500.
4. Bagchi T. 1994. Profile of some Indian tribes. 1st ed. Calcutta: Punthi Pustak. p 152-192.
5. Berg Y. 1994. The influence of socioeconomic status and style of life on cognitive development of Israeli Bedouin children. Journal of Crosscultural Psychology 25(4):478-488.
6. Botting N, Powls A, Cooke RW, Marlow N. 1998. Cognitive and educational outcome of very lo birth-weight children in early adolescence. Dev Med Child Neurol 40:65-660.
7. Census of Indian. 2001. Number of literates and literacy rates. Available online at: http://censusindia.gov.in/Census-Data-2001/India-at-glance/ literates1.aspx, accessed 14 December 2009.
8. Chang SM, Walker SP, Grantham-McGregor S, Powell CA. 2002. Early child stunting and later behavior and school achievement. J Child Psychol Psyc 43:775-783.
9. Chowdhury SD, Chakraborti T, Ghosh TK. 2008. Prevalence of undernutrition in Santal children of Purulia district, West Bengal. Ind Ped 45:43-46.
10. Crnic K, Lamberty G. 1994. Reconsidering school readiness: Conceptual and applied perspectives. Early Educ Dev 5:99-105.
11. Freeman HE, Klein RE, Townsend JW, Lechtig A. 1980. Nutritional and cognitive development among rural Guatemalan children. Am J Public Health 70:1277-1285.
12. Gorman KS. 1995. Malnutrition and cognitive development: Evidence from experimental/quasi-experimental studies among the mildmoderately malnourished. J Nutr 125:S2239-S2244.
13. Grantham-McGregor SM. 1993. Assessment of the effects of nutrition on menta development and behaviour in Jamaican studies. Am J Clin Nutr 57:303S-309S.
14. Ijarotimi OS, Ijadunola KT. 2007. Nutritional status and intelligent quotient of primary school children in Akure community of Ondo state, Nigeria. Tanzania Health Res Bull 9:69-76.
15. Ivanovic D. 1996. Does undernutrition during infancy inhibit brain growth and subsequent intellectual development? Nutrition 12: 568-571.
16. Kretchmer N, Beard JL, Carlson S. 1996. The role of nutrition in the development of normal cognition. Am J Clin Nutr 63: 997S-1001S.
17. Kumar N, Shekhar C, Kumar P, Kundu AS. 2007. Kuppuswamy?s socioeconomic status scale - Updating for 2007. Ind J Pediatr 74: 1131-1132.
18. Laflamme L, Engstrom K. 2002. Socioeconomic differences in Swedish children and adolescents injured in road traffic incidence: Cross sectional study. Brit Med J 324:396-397.
19. Larkin EC, Rao GA. 1990. Importance of fetal and neonatal iron: Adequacy for normal development of central nervous system. In: Dobbing J, editor. Brain, behavior and iron in the infant diet. London: Springer-Verlag. p 43-62.
20. Lee RD, Nieman DC. 2003. Nutritional assessment. 3rd ed. New York: McGraw Hill. p 163-215.
21. Levitsky DA, Strupp BJ. 1995. Malnutrition and the brain: Undernutrition and behavioral development in children. J Nutr 125: 2212S-2220S.
22. Liu J, Raine A, Venables PH, Dalais C, Mednick SA. 2003. Malnutrition at age 3 years and lower cognitive ability at age 11 years: Independence from psychosocial adversity. Arch Pediat Adol Med 157:593-600.
23. Mendez MA, Adair LS. 1999. Severity and timing of stunting in the first two years of life affect performance of cognitive tests in the latechildhood. J Nutr 129:1555-1562.
24. Meyers A, Chawla N. 2000. Nutrition and the social, emotional and cognitive development of infants and young children. Zero to Three 21:5-12.
25. Nelson CA, Luciana M. 2008. Handbook of developmental cognitive neuroscience. 2nd ed. A Bradford book. Cambridge/London: The MIT press. p 623-641.
26. Nigham V, Sharma R. 2001. Cognitive development in children in relation to socio-economic status. Psycho-Lingua 31:69-72.
27. Nwuga VCB. 1977. Effect of severe kwashiorkor on intellectual development among Nigerian children. Am J Clin Nutr 30: 1423-1430.
28. Petrill SA, Pike A, Price T, Plomin R. 2004. Chaos in the home and socioeconomic status are associated with cognitive development in early childhood: Environmental mediators identified in a genetic design. Intelligence 32:445-460.
29. Raven J, Raven JC, Court JH. 1998. Colored progressive matrices. Manuals for Raven?s progressive matrices and vocabulary scales. Section 2. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford Psychologists Press.
30. Saha N, Tay JS, Roy AC, Das MK, Das K, Roy M, Dey B, Banerjee S, Mukherjee BN. 1992. Genetic study if five populations of Bihar, India. Hum Biol 64:175-186.
31. Standstead HH. 1985. Zinc: Essentiality for brain development and function. Nutr Rev 43:129-137.
32. Stanfield JP. 1993. Some aspects of long-term effects of malnutrition on the behavior of children in the third world. Proc Nutr Soc 52: 201-210.
33. Stoch MB, Smythe PM. 1967. The effect of undernutrition during infancy on subsequent brain growth and intellectual development. S Afr Med J 41:1027-1030.
34. Tarleton JL, Haque R, Mondal D, Shu J, Farr BM, Petri WA. 2006. Cognitive effects of diarrhea, malnutrition and Entamoeba Histolytica infection on school age children in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Am J Trop Med 74:475-481.
35. Touitou Y, Portaluppi F, Smolensky MH, Rensing L. 2004. Ethical principles and standards for the conduct of human and animal biological rhythm research. Chronobiol Int 21:161-170.
36. Upadhyay SK, Agarwal DK, Agarwal KN. 1989. Influence of malnutrition on intellectual development. Ind J Med Res 90: 430-441.
37. Vemon PE. 1976. The development of cognitive process. In: Hamilton V, Vemon P, editors. Development of intelligence. London: Academic Press Inc. p 507-541.
38. World Health Organization. 1983. Measuring change in nutritional status. Geneva: World Health Organization. p 64-100.
39. World Health Organization Physical Status. 1995. Use and interpretation of anthropometry. WHO technical report No. 854. Geneva: WHO.
40. Zaini MZ, Lim CT, Low WY, Harun F. 2005. Effects of nutritional status on academic performance of Malaysian primary school children. Asi Pac J Public Health 17:81-87. (Pubitemid 41768063)