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Behavioral Disturbances Among Failure-to-Thrive Children
Ernesto Pollitt, PhD;
Aviva Eichler
Am J Dis Child. 1976;130(1):24-29.
Abstract
• The eating, sleeping, elimination, autoerotic and self-harming behavior of 19 preschool failure-to-thrive children was studied. Their behavior was compared to a group of 19 children growing normally for their chronological age. Information was obtained by repeated home visits by public health nurses. The growth-retarded children had more feeding difficulties as infants, had skimpier, less regular meals, and had poorer response to food when rated on a five-point scale. Their daily caloric intake was also lower. There were no substantial differences between groups for sleeping, elimination, autoerotic, and self-harming behaviors when each area was separately analyzed. However, when all the disturbances were summed, there was clear evidence that the failure-to-thrive children had a noticeably greater number of abnormalities than the control group.
(Am J Dis Child 130:24-29, 1976)
Author Affiliations
From the Department of Nutrition and Food Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.
Footnotes
Received for publication Sept 30, 1974; accepted March 25, 1975.
Reprint requests to the Department of Nutrition and Food Science, Room 20B-213, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139 (Dr Pollitt).
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