Study: Children born during pandemic have lower IQ

According to one study, children born during the coronary pandemic have a significant decline in verbal, motor, and general cognitive performance compared with children born before the pandemic took place, writes The Guardian.

The first years of a child's life are important for cognitive development, and since Covid-19 caused the closure of businesses, nests, schools, and playgrounds, life changed significantly as parents tried to balance work and child care.

With limited incentives at home and less interaction with the outside world, children of the pandemic age seem to have achieved low results in tests to assess cognitive development, according to chief author Sean Deoni, associate professor of pediatricism at Brown University.

In the decade before the pandemic, the average IQ result in tests for children between three months and three was about 100, but for children born during pandemic, the number is 78, abcnews reports. al

IQ (intelligent intelligence) The Intelligence Cofficient is a total result resulting from a set of standardized tests designed to assess human intelligence.

According to researchers, children from lower socioeconomic levels had the worst results in tests. The biggest reason after the drop of points is likely a lack of stimulus and interaction at home, Deoni said.

Given that this data comes from a relatively wealthy part of the United States, there is fear that things can be more negative in the poorest areas of the country and the world, he added.

Terence Stephenson, a professor of child health at College London, said that research was interesting, as there is a lot of data and analysis on the impact of pandemic on child education, but it has never been discussed for babies.

The main factor that has influenced these results in infants is likely the stress that parents experienced. They faced challenges both at work and in caring for full - time children.