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Learning Disabilities in Malnourished children
The study entitled "Learning Disabilities in Malnourished Children" undertaken in the rural areas of Trivandrum district was conducted to study the relative effect of malnutrition on the learning disabilities of children between five to ten years. • / The study was c...
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Vellayani
Department of Home Science, College of Agriculture
2001
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| 520 | 3 | |a The study entitled "Learning Disabilities in Malnourished Children" undertaken in the rural areas of Trivandrum district was conducted to study the relative effect of malnutrition on the learning disabilities of children between five to ten years. • / The study was carried out in Trivandrum district among children between five to ten years selected from three Lower Primary Schools, a Primary Health Centre and Institute of Rehabilitation of children with Cognitive and Communication Disorders (IRCCCD), a sister concern of Sree Chithra Thirunal Hospital. Medical College. The sample for the study comprised of a total of 240 subjects, divided into five groups of top, average. low r an ke r s , malnourished group and learning disabled group. The variables selected for the study were grouped into dependent and independent ones for convenience of statistical analysis. The dependent variables in the study included. the assessment scores of LD. nutritional s t a t u s , intelligence and overall development. While the independent ones consisted of those regarding demographic. socio-economic, developmental, health and nutritional as well as dietary aspects. Zo2.. The results in course of this investigation revealed the following salient findings. i) The demographic and socio economic status of the subjects studied revealed a heterogenous group of rural population ranging from low to middle. socio-economic background with random representation of the th~ee religions viz, Hindu, Christian and Muslim and predominently from backward caste. ii) The health and developmental history showed comparatively high prevalence of low birth weight, premature babies to lesser duration of breast feeding and with higher incidences of illnesses, developmental and behavioural problems, among the groups comprised of low rankers (Group Ill), malnourished (Group IV) and learning disabled subjects (Gro¥p V). i i i ) The food consumption pattern indicated that majority were non-vegetarians with half of the sample consuming inadequate diet (51.00 per cent). Cereals constituted the bulk of the diet. followed by daily consumption of fish, milk and milk products, v e g e t ab Le s , oil and sugar. Leafy vegetables and meat were consumed only in a very small quantity and rarely too. This agrees with the dietary consumption pattern of rural Keralites. More inadequacy in nutritional status was shown by low rankers and malnourished subjects when compared to top and average rankers and LD subjects. 2.03 i v ) With respect to the prevalence of LD, intelligence • malnutrition and overall development of the subjects, the high and averagerankers showed better nutritional status, intelligence, overall development and low LD score, compared to low rankers, malnourished and LD subjects. But the clinically identified LD subjects had better nutritional status and overall development than others though they scored poorly in intelligence and high in LD. v) Statistical analysis revealed that Group I of top rankers showed better intelligence, overall development and low incidence of LD. While in the case of nutritional status Group V topped the others, since most of them were from a better demographic and socio-economic background. Also the variation regarding the major scores, was negligible between Group III and IV ie low rankers and malnourished subjects. vi) The dependent variables studied such as LD, nutritional status. intelligence and overall development showed significant relationship with independent variables like Il/CfGE) age (except with overall development), parents educational status, number of siblings, birth weight an breast feeding duration (except with LD score), clinica symptoms, history of illness, problems of developm~nt an behaviour. In the case of LD score and o v e r a l . development score, the relationship was in the n e g a t i v. direction. Surprisingly, in this present study income die .• vii) not show any relationship with LD and intelligence Further LD showed negative correlation with nutritional status or malnutrition. It was also observed from the study that certain discrete independent variables and demographic and social variable~ like, sex, religion, caste and mother's employment status, have significant association with LD while all the other developmental and dietary variables, except for diet adequacy have insignificant association. Thus the result in sum suggest that LD is not merely genetical but factors in the environment like demographic and social factors, health, dietary and developmental factors have also an impact. Moreover nutritional status, intelligence, overall development and LD are interrelated. Further research in these areas are recommended before making any concrete generalisation. | |
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