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Exposure to Covid-19 pandemic linked to developmental delay in 5-year olds

By on July 11, 2023

A Japanese research finds developmental delay by an average 4.39 months in 5-year old children was linked to the COVID-19 pandemic.

A developmental delay happens when your child doesn’t reach their developmental milestones as expected. What this means is that your child is developing certain skills slower than their peers.

The study published Tuesday on JAMA Pediatrics, a medical journal of the American Medical Association by lead author Koryu Sato, M.P.H., of Kyoto University and University of Tsukuba researchers, was based on the developmental status of 5-year-old nursery kids at a Tokyo municipality.

The group suspects the developmental delay may have been caused by a reduction in interactions with others as nurseries were closed at the height of the pandemic.

The study was based on assessments by nursery school teachers on the developmental status of 447 1-year-old and 440 3-year-old children at all state-compliant nursery schools in the surveyed municipality between 2017 and 2019.

The group conducted a follow-up study of the same children two years later.

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