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KMID : 0438219730100010477
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Korea University Medical Journal
1973 Volume.10 No. 1 p.477 ~ p.482
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A Influencing Factors Affecting the Time of Onset of Walking Alone
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Abstract
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The normal child has his own schedule of growth and development. The individual pattern is determined by an interplay of hereditary and environmental factors.
The purpose of this investigation was to determined the factors influencing the time of onset of walking alone. An unselected group of 540 children observed at a well baby clinic of Department of Pediatrics, Woo-Sok Hospital Korea University.
The results obtained were as follows;
1. The average infant was walking alone at 12 months of age. This results to be accelerated somewhat as compared with the generally accepted standard time. There was no difference between the rate of the boys and that of the girls.
2. In children delivered normally walking alone appeared earlier than who born by cesarean section, forceps or vaccum extraction.
3. The age of walking alone was not influenced by birth order.
4. The time of onset of walking alone for low-birth-weight children were somewhat delayed compared with that of normal birth weight children.
5. Both full-term and postmaturely born children seemed to be walk alone ealier than prematurely born children.
6. To compare the age of walking alone of breast fed and bottle fed children, former group was earlier than that of latter group.
7. Person of foster care was not effected upon the time of onset of walking alone, although children under the grandmother´s care seemed to be somewhat delayed to walk alone.
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