우량아 심사에 참가한 영유아의 성장 발육에 대한 고찰 = A Study on the Growth and Development of Infants Who Participated in the Contest of Well Babies with Particular Attention to Physical Growth

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The write conducted an observation on the value of growth and development of 255 quasi-well babies (Among them were 47 well babies and 3 babies- in perfect health) ranging from 6 to 24 months in age, who had passed preliminary examinations for the well baby contest twice held by the Pusan City Office in 1971. As the research focused on the evaluation of feeding methods and home environments etc., the following results were obtained;
1. About a half to two-thirds of those babies who were in the contest fell
under the category of above the 90th percentile of the Korean standard value of height, chest and head circumference.
2. All the babies except ten who were the average weight for the standard value, were overweight. Among them, 220 babies (or 88,°0) were above the 90th percentile of the standard value.
3. 64 of the quasi-well babies (or 25%). 24 of the well babies, (or 48%), and. 3 of the babies in perfect health (or 100%) were obese according to Kaup Index.
4. The method of feeding was mostly breast feeding.
Though about a half of them were fed weaning food along with breast .feeding, the weaning was. generally prolonged. Among those, 31 babies (12. 1%) were fed cow's milk.
5. In most cases the parents of the babies were.