Grades of undernutrition and socioeconomic status influence cognitive development in school children of K olkata

Bibliographic Data

ID8317961
AuthorsSatabdi Ghosh (0000-0003-4570-4098, Department of Physiology University College of Science and Technology University of Calcutta Kolkata West Bengal 700 009 India), Sutanu Dutta Chowdhury (0000-0002-3099-913X, Department of Physiology University College of Science and Technology University of Calcutta Kolkata West Bengal 700 009 India), Ananga Mohan Chandra (Department of Physiology University College of Science and Technology University of Calcutta Kolkata West Bengal 700 009 India), Tusharkanti Ghosh (0000-0003-3865-239X, Department of Physiology University College of Science and Technology University of Calcutta Kolkata West Bengal 700 009 India, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume156
Issue2
Pages274-285
Publication date2015-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Journal of Physical Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-9483 • E-ISSN: 1096-8644
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/ajpa.22648
PMID25348835
OpenAlexW1544490815
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited56

Cognitive development of children is influenced by different environmental factors like nutritional and socio‐economic status. The objectives of the present study were to determine the influence of grades of undernutrition and socio‐economic status (SES) on the cognitive development of school children of Kolkata. Five hundred sixty six (566) school children having 5–12 years of age were selected from different schools of Kolkata. The cognitive development was measured by the scores of Raven's colored progressive matrices (RCPM). The chronic and acute nutritional statuses were measured from height‐for‐age (HAZ) and weight‐for‐age (WAZ) Z scores respectively with reference to the values of WHO. SES was determined by updated Kuppuswamy scale. The prevalences of undernutrition in the observed children were 57.95% (according to HAZ) and 52.82% (according to WAZ). The age dependent growth curve of RCPM scores of the observed children remains in between the 10th and 25th centile of British children. The children belonging to superior and intellectual deficit IQ classes were 21.55 and 36.40%, respectively of the total subjects. Most of the subjects belong to lower middle (39.93%) and upper middle (36.40%) class of SES. RCPM scores of school children were gradually decreased with the grades of undernutrition and SES. RCPM scores were significantly correlated with HAZ, WAZ, SES, age, and sex ( P P P

Anthropometry · Cognition · Cognitive development · Environmental health · Malnutrition · Population · Raven's Progressive Matrices · Socioeconomic status · Standard score · Weight for Age · Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues · Child Nutrition and Water Access · Demography · Internal Medicine · Medicine · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet · Pediatrics

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