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Journal of Tropical Pediatrics 1987 33(2):107-109; doi:10.1093/tropej/33.2.107
© 1987 by Oxford University Press
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Study of Physical and Psycho-social Development of Pre-school Children

L. N. Balaji, MD* and Saroj Arya**

*Department of Gastroenterology and Human Nutrition Unit, All India Institute of Medical Sciences Ansari Nagar, New Delhi 110 029, India
**Field Unit, National Institute of Nutrition Hyderabad

Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), a national programme of the Government of India has health, nutrition, and pre-school education components of services. This study compares the physical and psycho-social development of pre-school children in the age group 4–5 years from two different areas viz. ICDS and non-ICDS villages within the same community development block by selected anthropomentric, psychological, and social maturity criteria. It was revealed that children in the ICDS area were significantly better nourished (P < 0.05), better in perception of forms, colour matching, and scored better in Total Social Maturity scores, and the social spheres of self direction, occupation, communication, socialization, and occupation.


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