The influence of early malnutrition on subsequent behavioral development, II: classroom behavior
Galler JR, Ramsey F, Solimano G, Lowell WE (1983) J Am Acad Child Psychiatry. 1983 Jan;22(1): 16-22 doi. 10.1097/00004583-198301000-00003
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Abstract:
The classroom behaviors of 129 Barbadian children (77 boys and 52 girls) aged 5 to 11 years, who suffered from moderate-severe protein-energy malnutrition in the first year of life were compared with those observed in children with no history of malnutrition. The data were gathered from questionnaires administered to teachers who were unaware of the child's previous nutritional history.The results demonstrated that the previously malnourished children had attention deficits, reduced social skills, poorer physical appearance and emotional instability when compared to the matched comparison children.
These behavioral deficits associated with prior malnutrition were independent of IQ and were experienced to a greater extent by boys.
Socioeconomic conditions at the time of the study contributed little to the behavioral deficits of the previously malnourished children, as compared with the large contribution of the history of early malnutrition or the conditions producing it.
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