Nutrition as an important mediator of the impact of background variables on outcome in middle childhood

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue OCT, 2013, Pages

  Kitsao Wekulo, Patricia ^a,b,c   Holding, Penny ^a,b,d   Taylor, H Gerry ^e   Abubakar, Amina ^a,f,g   Kvalsvig, Jane ^c   Connolly, Kevin ^h  

^a Department of Publications and Ethics International Centre for Behavioural Studies ^*

^b International Centre for Behavioural Studies   (Kenya)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^d CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^g TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^h UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Co occurring risk factors; Cognitive outcomes; Direct and indirect effects; Nutritional status; School age children; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; COGNITION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KENYA; LANGUAGE; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; SCHOOL; SCHOOL CHILD; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; VERBAL MEMORY;

EID: 84887885629     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00713     Document Type: Article

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