1992
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.1992.tb11492.x
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Intellectual and Physical Outcome of Children Undernourished in Early Life Is Influenced by Later Environmental Conditions

Abstract: SUMMARY Thirty‐five schoolchildren who share a common history of early undernutrition and who were reared after recovery by adoptive families (16), in institutional care (eight) or by their biological families (11) were assessed for physical and intellectual outcome. The adopted children had mean normal weight and height for age, but the children from institutions were significantly shorter. Adopted children had mean Full‐scale, Verbal and Performance IQs in the normal ranges, with significant differences from… Show more

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“…The results show that adoption seems to be a clearly better option to institutionalization regarding cognitive development, for example, IQ (Colombo, Delaparra, & Lopez, 1992;Dennis, 1973;Hodges & Tizard, 1989), emotional problems (Triseliotis & Russell, 1984), and self-esteem (Palacios & Sanchez-Sandoval, 2005). Studies conducted in the years 1973 to 2006 produced the same outcome in OECD countries and in Chile, Lebanon, and India.…”
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confidence: 94%
“…The results show that adoption seems to be a clearly better option to institutionalization regarding cognitive development, for example, IQ (Colombo, Delaparra, & Lopez, 1992;Dennis, 1973;Hodges & Tizard, 1989), emotional problems (Triseliotis & Russell, 1984), and self-esteem (Palacios & Sanchez-Sandoval, 2005). Studies conducted in the years 1973 to 2006 produced the same outcome in OECD countries and in Chile, Lebanon, and India.…”
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confidence: 94%
“…Some studies have explored differences in children's development as a function of the nature of the PI environment. Researchers have derived main characteristics of families that influence child's development: stability of placement (Berrick, Barth, & Needell, 1994;Brown, Cohon, & Wheeler, 2002;Testa, 1997), socioeconomic status (e.g., Colombo, de la Parra, & Lopez, 1992;Duyme, Dumaret, & Tomkiewicz, 1999), and the presence/absence of abuse and neglect in PI families (Barth & Berry, 1994;Farmer, 1996;Runyan & Gold, 1985;Terling, 1999;Wald, Carlsmith, & Leiderman, 1988). Adoptive homes can be considered to be the most appropriate environment for a child's development while restored and kinship families may be less appropriate.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Malnourished children can make a remarkable improvement in development with adoption (Colombo et al, 1992). However, it is difficult to replicate this level of intervention.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%