Cited by 118Child Welfare and AdoptionChild Nutrition and Water AccessHuman Health and Disease

Developmental and nutritional status of internationally adopted children

Miller, Laurie C.·1995·Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine

Abstract

OBJECTIVES: To assess the relationship between developmental status of international adoptees at the time of entry into the United States and their nutritional status and concurrent medical problems. DESIGN: Prospective study. SETTING/PATIENTS: One hundred twenty-nine internationally adopted children attending the International Adoption Clinic at the Floating Hospital for Children, Boston, Mass, underwent detailed developmental assessments, anthropometric measurements, and medical examinations. RESULTS: The anthropometric measurements of the international adoptees were below the means for weight, height, and head circumference based on standards of the World Health Organization. Only 65 children (50%) were developmentally normal. Gross motor delays were identified in 43 children (33%), fine motor delays in 52 (40%), language delays in 23 (18%), cognitive delays in 21 (16%), and global delays in 18 (14%). The severity of delays were related to z scores for weight, height, and head circumference. The 36 children with medical problems had lower z scores compared with healthy children and were more likely to have delayed development. CONCLUSIONS: Careful developmental and growth screening of internationally adopted children at entry into the United States identifies adopted children at entry interventions and close follow-up. Longitudinal studies of internationally adopted children may provide evidence about the reversibility of growth and developmental delays, findings applicable to any environmentally deprived child.

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1001/archpedi.1995.02170130042009

Cites

15 of 15 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Recomputing p-values needs the paper’s full text.

Claims the paper makes

This paper’s full text isn’t openly available, so its claims and self-check weren’t run. The registry and citation checks still apply.

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
Miller, L. C.
Affiliations
Tufts Medical Center (US)
Corresponding author
Miller, Laurie C.
Venue
Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
Published
1995-01-01
Volume
149
Issue
1
Pages
40
ISSN
1072-4710 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2055668582
Cited by
118
References
15
Citations by year
2021: 4 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 2 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 6 · 2012: 6
FWCI
17.96
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Safety Research › Child Welfare and Adoption
  • Health Sciences › Nursing › Nutrition and Dietetics › Child Nutrition and Water Access
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health › Human Health and Disease
Keywords
international adoption, adopted children, developmental delay, nutritional status, anthropometry, gross motor delay, fine motor delay, language delay, cognitive delay, growth screening, health problems, environmental deprivation, developmental follow-up
MeSH terms
Adoption, Child, Child Development, Child, Preschool, Humans, Infant, International Cooperation, Nutritional Status, Prospective Studies

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review