Table 4.
Social-emotional performance of SAM versus non-malnourished children at median ages on ASQ:SE
| aMedian age (in month) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 12 | 18 | 23.5 | 29.5 | 37.5 | 47.5 | 59.5 | |
| SAM children’s ASQ:SE score | 61.1 | 60.8 | 61.5 | 62.9 | 65.4 | 70.1 | 80.1 | 98.6 |
| bASQ:SE cutoff score | 45 | 48 | 50 | 50 | 57 | 59 | 70 | 70 |
| c Deviation from cutoff (%) | 16.1 (35.8%) | 12.8 (26.7%) | 11.5 (23%) | 12.9 (25.8%) | 8.4 (14.7%) | 11.1 (18.6%) | 10.1 (14.4%) | 28.6 (40.9%) |
| dDifference: SAM versus healthy | 34.5 (575%) | 27.3 (227.5%) | 20.6 (114.4%) | 15.5 (66%) | 11.6 (39.3%) | 10.5 (28%) | 18.1 (38.1%) | 42.3 (71.1%) |
ASQ:SE ages and stages questionnaires: social-emotional, SAM severely acutely malnourished
a The median of the age ranges on the eight age groups on ASQ:SE; b Child’s ASQ:SE score greater or equal to a cutoff score marks presence of problem behavior; c Deviation score is a distance of SAM child’s score from the cutoff score. Deviation percentage is calculated by dividing it by the cutoff score and then multiplying by hundred; d ‘Difference’ is calculated by referring to the healthy children (subtracting the social-emotional score of the non-malnourished children from that of SAM children); dividing the ‘difference’ by the median age at comparison and multiplying it by hundred gives its percentage