Journal of Nutrition & Food Sciences
Open Access
ISSN: 2155-9600
ISSN: 2155-9600
Ambreen Nizar
Aga Khan University, Pakistan
Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Nutr Food Sci
Early neurodevelopment of child sets stage for later achievements in life. Developed countries have embarked many programs upon it but in order to tailor these programs age wise for children in LMICs, enough data is required. This study aims to find the developmental age and its correspondence with chronological age of 24 months old children residing in peri-urban areas of Karachi, Pakistan. We administered Bayleys scale of infant development BSID III on 506 children enrolled in AMANHI study at Ibrahim hyderi research center for the assessment of their cognitive, language and motor development, from the duration of February 2017 till June 2018. The developmental age was derived from the raw scores attained on various subscales of BSID III. Paired t-test was ran to assess any significant difference in a child�??s chronological and developmental age at five subscales of BSID III. The data has reported mean difference in months with 95% Confidence Interval (CI). All the analysis was conducted using STATA 15. The mean chronological age (in months) was 24.2, while mean developmental age at all five sub-scales was 18.9 (cognitive), 20.8 (receptive communication), 20.24 (expressive communication), 21.2 (fine motor) and 19.4 (gross motor). We found a statistical significant difference in children�??s chronological and developmental age in subscales of cognition (5.3, 4.9-5.5), receptive communication (3.3, 3-3.7), expressive communication (3.9, 3.5-4.3), fine motor (3, 2.6-3.3) and gross motor skills (4.7, 4.3-5.1). The current data shows that these children lag behind in all learning areas. These findings can be used to further uncover the factors that are responsible for these developmental delays.