Table 4.
Iron Status in Infancy and Maternal Behavior in the Home at 5 Years
| Chronic ID (n = 36)
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Good Iron (n = 95)
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Observational Code | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | F | Effect Sizea | Covariates |
| Maternal behavior (EC-HOME) | |||||||
| Responsivity | 5.76 | 2.1 | 6.55 | 2.53 | 4.46** | 0.34 | Gender, M education, F absence |
| Stimulation | 8.36 | 2.04 | 7.86 | 2.44 | 1.91 | 0.22 | Gender, M education, F absence |
| Avoidance of harsh parenting | 3.68 | 1.26 | 4.09 | 1.27 | 2.99* | 0.32 | Gender, M education |
ID, iron deficiency; EC-HOME, Early Childhood-Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment; M, mother; F, father. Sample size differed slightly from other analyses due to some missing data in EC-HOME.
a
Effect size (in SD units) = difference between the means divided by pooled standard deviation. Effect sizes shown are adjusted for covariates.
*
p = .10;
**
p < .05.