Nutritional status and mental development in rural Haiti

摘要: Pre‐school children in rural Haiti were examined and weighed by a team from the Bureau of Nutrition. A total 221 classified according to their weight‐for‐age as normal, or nutritionally deficient First, Second, Third Degree, using Gomez scale. decade later, 164 same who original survey tested for mental maturity with Goodenough Draw‐A‐Person test. Scores cross‐tabulated nutritional status previous decade. Findings indicated statistically significant relationship between level level. Children most severe malnutrition found numbers lowest quartile test scores. Similarly, number whose was normal pre‐school placed highest administered later. indicate that malnutrit...