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- Title
Parental Education, Children's Nutritional Status and Non-verbal Intelligence in Rural School-children.
- Authors
Mandlik, Rubina; Ekbote, Veena; Chiplonkar, Shashi; Khadilkar, Vaman; Khadilkar, Anuradha
- Abstract
Objective: To assess non-verbal intelligence and its relationship with nutritional status, nutrient intakes and parents' education in school-children. Methods: A cross-sectional, observational study was conducted in children between 6–11 years, without any known chronic disorder or intellectual disability. Data were collected regarding parents' education, anthropometry and dietary intakes. Non-verbal intelligence was assessed by Raven's Coloured Progressive Matrices (RCPM). Results: In 323 enrolled children (52.9% boys), a significant positive association was observed between RCPM scores and parents' education (father's rs=0.14, mother's rs=0.22), height Z-scores (rs=0.14) and dietary intakes of zinc (rs=0.14), iron (rs=0.12) and folate (rs=0.14). Conclusion: Height in normal range, higher zinc, iron and folate intakes, and parental higher educational levels were associated with higher non-verbal intelligence scores.
- Subjects
NUTRITIONAL status; ARTIFICIAL intelligence; INGESTION; INTELLECTUAL disabilities; RELATIONSHIP status; NONVERBAL intelligence tests
- Publication
Indian Pediatrics, 2019, Vol 56, Issue 3, p205
- ISSN
0019-6061
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s13312-019-1501-y