Open AccessA comparative study of temperamental, behavioral, and cognitive changes in thalassemia major, thalassemia minor, and normal population
Author(s) -
Ranjan Bhattacharyya,
Kaustav Chakraborty,
Arya Sen,
Rajarshi Neogi,
Sumita Bhattacharyya
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
indian journal of psychiatry/indian journal of psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.485
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1998-3794
pISSN - 0019-5545
DOI - 10.4103/psychiatry.indianjpsychiatry_459_18
Subject(s) - temperament , cognition , psychology , rating scale , population , confounding , psychopathology , clinical psychology , analysis of variance , medicine , psychiatry , personality , developmental psychology , social psychology , environmental health
Temperament in children and adolescents acts as a trait marker which can predict behavioral abnormalities. There was no systemic study in India which has compared the temperamental, behavioral and cognitive changes associated with this hemoglobinopathy among thalassemia major (TM) group.