Socio-emotional and adaptive behaviour in children treated for severe anaemia at Lira Regional Referral Hospital, Uganda: a prospective cohort study

Table 2 Adjusted means for social-emotional and adaptive behavioural z-scores for children with severe anaemia and community control children

Scales	Severe Anaemia n = 171 M, (SE)	Community Control n = 88 M (SE)	Difference in means p-value
Social emotional	− 0.29, (0.05)	0.01, (0.08)	0.002*
Overall Adaptive behaviour	− 0.10, (0.05)	− 0.01, (0.07)	0.343
Adaptive communication	− 0.11, (0.05)	0.00, (0.07)	0.776
Adaptive community use^a	− 0.63, (0.10)	− 0.01, (0.13)	< 0.001*
Adaptive pre-academics^a	0.06, (0.12)	− 0.02, (0.16)	0.976
Adaptive home living^a	0.26, (0.12)	− 0.03, (0.16)	0.656
Adaptive health and safety	− 0.11, (0.05)	− 0.01, (0.07)	0.931
Adaptive leisure	− 0.35, (0.07)	− 0.02, (0.09)	0.036*
Adaptive self-care	− 0.26, (0.06)	− 0.03, (0.09)	0.224
Adaptive self-direction	0.03, (0.08)	− 0.03, (0.11)	0.976
Adaptive social	0.25, (0.08)	− 0.04, (0.11)	0.273
Adaptive motor	0.00, (0.06)	0.00, (0.08)	0.976

^aChildren below one year are not assessed on these skill areas and the total number of children for these scales for each group were–Severe anaemia group n = 126; Control group n = 70)
Associations with adaptive subscales have been adjusted for multiple testing using the Hommel’s procedure (Hommel [43]) and *p < 0.05 is statistically significant

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