Epidemiology of Developmental Delay among Children in Al-Batool Teaching Hospital in Ba'aquba-Iraq Sarhat Ashoor R.1,*, Jihad Saif Saad2, Rahuman Sarab K. Abdal2 1Tikrit Medical College, Iraq 2Salah Al-Deen Health Directorate, Iraq *Corresponding author: Ashoor R. Sarhat. Tikrit Medical College, Iraq; E-mail: ashoor.sarhat@gmail.com
Online published on 21 February, 2019. Abstract A cross sectional descriptive observational study done on a randomly selected sample of (200) children of age between (6–36) months who present with suspected developmental delay attended an AL-Batool teaching hospital in Ba'aquba city The male were 88 (44%), and 112 (56%) female. The prevalence of suspected developmental delay was 16 (8%). From the children developmental delay; 7 (15.9%) had O.F.C<-2SD and 1 (2.3%) > 98th percentile, 14 (31.8%) had body weight < 3rd percentile, 12 (27.3%) had height < 3rd percentile, bottle feeding 27 (61.4%), and breast feeding represent 9 (20.5%). Top Keywords Developmental Delay, Children, Epidemiology, Iraq. Top |