Kwashiorkor and intellectual development: a ten-year follow-up study

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dc.contributor.authorEvans, David Een_ZA
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dc.date.issued1969en_ZA
dc.description.abstractForty Cape Coloured children who had been hospitalized for kwashiorkor in infancy were compared with their siblings on an intelligence test battery at the 10th year of follow-up. No significant differences in intelligence test performance were noted. A significant discrepancy between the intelligence test score and the drawing score on late onset cases may be due to affective factors. The groups were similar in terms of height, weight and head circumference. The differences between well-nourished and poorly nourished groups found by previous investigators may be accounted for by the independent operation of non-nutritive variables in the social and emotional environment. The use of intra-familial controls in the present study minimised these influences as well as possible genetic factors in intellectual development. Kwashiorkor is a protein calorie nutritional disease which occurs typically in children under the age of 2 years. The disease was recognised in the early 1930's, but only later was the nutritional aetiology realised. Today, kwashiorkor is regarded as a well-defined syndrome representing one pole of the broad clinical spectrum of nutritional disease referred to as protein-calorie malnutrition (PCM). In contrast to marasmus which represents the opposite end of the continuum, the caloric deficiency in kwashiorkor is not as severe as is the protein deficiency. The idea that kwashiorkor may affect the intellectual development of the child is suggested by the marked apathy during the acute stage of the disease.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationEvans, D. E. (1969). <i>Kwashiorkor and intellectual development: a ten-year follow-up study</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Psychology. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/16464en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationEvans, David E. <i>"Kwashiorkor and intellectual development: a ten-year follow-up study."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Psychology, 1969. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/16464en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationEvans, D. 1969. Kwashiorkor and intellectual development: a ten-year follow-up study. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Evans, David E AB - Forty Cape Coloured children who had been hospitalized for kwashiorkor in infancy were compared with their siblings on an intelligence test battery at the 10th year of follow-up. No significant differences in intelligence test performance were noted. A significant discrepancy between the intelligence test score and the drawing score on late onset cases may be due to affective factors. The groups were similar in terms of height, weight and head circumference. The differences between well-nourished and poorly nourished groups found by previous investigators may be accounted for by the independent operation of non-nutritive variables in the social and emotional environment. The use of intra-familial controls in the present study minimised these influences as well as possible genetic factors in intellectual development. Kwashiorkor is a protein calorie nutritional disease which occurs typically in children under the age of 2 years. The disease was recognised in the early 1930's, but only later was the nutritional aetiology realised. Today, kwashiorkor is regarded as a well-defined syndrome representing one pole of the broad clinical spectrum of nutritional disease referred to as protein-calorie malnutrition (PCM). In contrast to marasmus which represents the opposite end of the continuum, the caloric deficiency in kwashiorkor is not as severe as is the protein deficiency. The idea that kwashiorkor may affect the intellectual development of the child is suggested by the marked apathy during the acute stage of the disease. DA - 1969 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 1969 T1 - Kwashiorkor and intellectual development: a ten-year follow-up study TI - Kwashiorkor and intellectual development: a ten-year follow-up study UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/16464 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/16464
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationEvans DE. Kwashiorkor and intellectual development: a ten-year follow-up study. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Psychology, 1969 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/16464en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Psychologyen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherClinical Psychologyen_ZA
dc.titleKwashiorkor and intellectual development: a ten-year follow-up studyen_ZA
dc.typeMaster Thesis
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