Table 3.

Iron Status in Infancy and Child and Mother Affect/Behavior During Structured Task at 5 Years

Observational Code	OR	95% CI	p
Child (PARCHISY)^a
Positive affect	0.43	0.22–0.86	.02
Activity	0.31	0.15–0.66	.01
Verbalization	0.39	0.18–0.81	.01
Mother-child interaction (PARCHISY)^a
Reciprocity	0.43	0.22–0.87	.02
Maternal behavior (PARCHISY)^b
Positive affect	0.65	0.33–1.30	.22
Positive control	0.66	0.33–1.34	.25
Negative control	1.28	0.19–1.45	.50
Responsivity	0.50	0.25–1.00	.05
Verbalization	0.55	0.27–1.14	.11

PARCHISY, Parent-Child Interaction System.

Reference group for chronic iron deficiency group is good iron status.

p values ≤ .05 are shown in bold.

Odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence interval (CI) from ordinal logistic regression.

Adjusted for gender.

Adjusted for gender and maternal education for all codes, with additional covariates of father absence and maternal depression for the negative control code.