Table III.
Standardized psychomotor scores of children in the disease progressed and the reference group
Weight a | Disease progressionb |
n | Mean | SD | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Psychomotor total scorec |
Normal growth | 0 | 263 | 0.16 | 0.81 |
1 | 13 | −0.09 | 0.57 | ||
Underweight | 0 | 77 | −0.16 | 0.90 | |
1 | 14 | −2.05 | 2.11 | ||
Locomotor subscalec |
Normal growth | 0 | 263 | 0.14 | 0.82 |
1 | 13 | 0.19 | 0.77 | ||
Underweight | 0 | 77 | −0.15 | 0.89 | |
1 | 14 | −1.99 | 2.14 | ||
Eye–hand coordination subscalec |
Normal growth | 0 | 263 | 0.14 | 0.86 |
1 | 13 | −0.38 | 0.53 | ||
Underweight | 0 | 77 | −0.13 | 1.00 | |
1 | 14 | −1.71 | 1.78 |
Being underweight was defined as having weight-for-age scores less than −2.00 SD of the reference population score distribution
0=children from the community sample, those who were exposed to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) but were uninfected, and those with HIV stage 1 infection; 1=children with symptomatic HIV infection (stage 2 or 3).
Based on the Kilifi Developmental Inventory.