The MAL-ED cohort study: Methods and lessons learned when assessing early child development and caregiving mediators in infants and young children in 8 low-and middle-income countries

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 59, Issue , 2014, Pages S261-S272

  Murray Kolb, Laura E ^a,p   Rasmussen, Zeba A ^b   Scharf, Rebecca J ^c   Rasheed, Muneera A ^d   Svensen, Erling ^e,f   Seidman, Jessica C ^b,p   Tofail, Fahmida ^g,p   Koshy, Beena ^h,p   Shrestha, Rita ^i,j,p   Maphula, Angelina ^k,p   Vasquez, Angel Orbe ^l,m,p   Da Costa, Hilda P ⁿ   Yousafzai, Aisha K ^d   Oria, Reinaldo B ^n,p   Roshan, Reeba ^h,p   Bayyo, Eliwasa B ^f   Kosek, Margaret N ^p   Shrestha, Sanjaya ^i,j   Schaefer, Barbara A ^a   Bessong, Pascal ^k,p   Ahmed, Tahmeed ^h,p   Lang, Dennis ^b,o   Acosta, Angel Mendez ^p   de Burga, Rosa Rios ^p   Chavez, Cesar Banda ^p   Flores, Julian Torres ^p   Olotegui, Maribel Paredes ^p   Pinedo, Silvia Rengifo ^p   Salas, Mery Siguas ^p   Trigoso, Dixner Rengifo ^p   Ahmed, Imran ^p   Alam, Didar ^p   Ali, Asad ^p   Bhutta, Zulfiqar A ^p   Qureshi, Shahida ^p   Rasheed, Muneera ^p   Soofi, Sajid ^p   Turab, Ali ^p   Zaidi, Anita KM ^p   Bodhidatta, Ladaporn ^p   Mason, Carl J ^p   Babji, Sudhir ^p   Bose, Anuradha ^p   George, Ajila T ^p   Hariraju, Dinesh ^p   Jennifer, M Steffi ^p   John, Sushil ^p   Kaki, Shiny ^p   Kang, Gagandeep ^p   Karunakaran, Priyadarshani ^p   Lazarus, Robin P ^p   Muliyil, Jayaprakash ^p   Raghava, Mohan Venkata ^p   Raju, Sophy ^p   Ramachandran, Anup ^p   Ramadas, Rakhi ^p   Ramanujam, Karthikeyan ^p   Sharma, Srujan L ^p   Shanmuga Sundaram, E ^p   Thomas, Rahul J ^p   Pan, William K ^p   Ambikapathi, Ramya ^p   Carreon, J Daniel ^p   Charu, Vivek ^p   Doan, Viyada ^p   Graham, Jhanelle ^p   Hoest, Christel ^p   Knobler, Stacey ^p   Lang, Dennis R ^p   McCormick, Benjamin JJ ^p   McGrath, Monica ^p   Miller, Mark A ^p   Mohale, Archana ^p   Nayyar, Gaurvika ^p   Psaki, Stephanie ^p   Rasmussen, Zeba ^p   Richard, Stephanie A ^p   Wang, Vivian ^p   Blank, Rebecca ^p   Gottlieb, Michael ^p   Tountas, Karen H ^p   Amour, Caroline ^p   Bayyo, Eliwaza ^p   Mduma, Estomih R ^p   Mvungi, Regisiana ^p   Nshama, Rosemary ^p   Pascal, John ^p   Swema, Buliga Mujaga ^p   Yarrot, Ladislaus ^p   Ahmed, AM Shamsir ^p   Haque, Rashidul ^p   Hossain, Iqbal ^p   Islam, Munirul ^p   Mahfuz, Mustafa ^p   Mondal, Dinesh ^p   Chandyo, Ram Krishna ^p   Shrestha, Prakash Sunder ^p   Ulak, Manjeswori ^p   Bauck, Aubrey ^p   Black, Robert E ^p   Caulfield, Laura E ^p   Checkley, William ^p   Lee, Gwenyth ^p   Schulze, Kerry ^p   Yori, Pablo Peñataro ^p   Ross, A Catharine ^p   Schaefer, Barbara ^p   Simons, Suzanne ^p   Pendergast, Laura ^p   Abreu, Cláudia B ^p   Costa, Hilda ^p   Di Moura, Alessandra ^p   Filho, José Quirino ^p   Havt, Alexandre ^p   Leite, Álvaro M ^p   Lima, Aldo AM ^p   Lima, Noélia L ^p   Lima, Ila F ^p   Maciel, Bruna LL ^p   Medeiros, Pedro HQS ^p   Moraes, Milena ^p   Mota, Francisco S ^p   Quetz, Josiane ^p   Soares, Alberto M ^p   Mota, Rosa MS ^p   Patil, Crystal L ^p   Mahopo, Cloupas ^p   Nyathi, Emanuel ^p   Samie, Amidou ^p   more..

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^d AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^f HAYDOM LUTHERAN HOSPITAL   (Tanzania)

^g INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^h CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

ⁱ TRIBHUVAN UNIVERSITY   (Nepal)

^j Royal Thai Army   (Thailand)

^k UNIVERSITY OF VENDA   (South Africa)

^l ASOCIACIÓN BENÉFICA PRISMA   (Peru)

^m JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

ⁿ FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^o NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^p NONE

more..

Author keywords

child; cognitive development; infant; low and middle income countries; methods

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; BAYLEY SCALES OF INFANT DEVELOPMENT; BRAZIL; CAREGIVER; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIA; INTESTINE INFECTION; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MIDDLE INCOME GROUP; NEPAL; PAKISTAN; PERU; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOSOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; QUALITY CONTROL; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOUTH AFRICA; TANZANIA; TEMPERAMENT; CLASSIFICATION; COGNITION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MOTHER; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MOTHERS; PSYCHOMETRICS; TEMPERAMENT;

EID: 84913543687     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciu437     Document Type: Article

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