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Summary: To identify risk factors likely to cause developmental disabilities and to generate hypotheses for a further study of risk factors predisposing to disability and slow mental and physical development Mothers and children attending/visiting the Sandy Gall's Afghanistan Appeal (SGAA) clinics in the East Zone of Afghanistan. The main outcome measures, developmental disabilities, cerebral palsy (CP), club foot, CDH and polio Results, 375% of the disabilities were present at birth, 46% of the disabled children were born from parents who are 1st cousin which was confirmed by computing χ2 value, which is 1087 with one degree of freedom 583% of the disabled children were born from parents who lack antenatal care 224% of the pregnant women in the defined population had antenatal checkups, and 97% of the mothers in the defined population are illiterate, 52% of the children found with CP specific and mental retardation 25% were with delayed physical and mental development 13% were with CPspecific and 10 % were club foot 2% of the children were visually handicapped, 9% with hearing impairment. 61% of children were from Nangarhar, 25% from Laghman and 14% from Kunar.
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Nasir, J. 650 Investigation of the Probable Causes of Specific Childhood Disabilities in Eastern Afghanistan (Preliminary Report). Pediatr Res 68 (Suppl 1), 332 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1203/00006450-201011001-00650
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1203/00006450-201011001-00650