Jeannette Rosselló José H. Hernández Gloria Zayas Peter Ortiz Mercedes Ortiz Luisa Alvarez

Abstract

The following study aims to investigate the relationship between mercury contamination and the intellectual and affective functionning of a group of children from Humacao, an eastern town in Puerto Rico.

Even public school children, 7 to 15 years old, constitued the experimental group. All of them had lived in Ciudad Cristiana, a residential area evacuated because of mercury contamination (mercury level above 2.8mg/ml).

Eleven other public school children within the same age range were chosen as a control group. These lived in Naguabo, also an eastern town with similar characteristic to the group of Humacao.

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Relación entre la contaminación con mercurio y el funcionamiento intelectual y afectivo en un grupo de niños de Humacao, Puerto Rico. (2016). Puerto Rican Journal of Psychology, 5(1), 1-12. https://repsasppr.net/index.php/reps/article/view/27
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Relación entre la contaminación con mercurio y el funcionamiento intelectual y afectivo en un grupo de niños de Humacao, Puerto Rico. (2016). Puerto Rican Journal of Psychology, 5(1), 1-12. https://repsasppr.net/index.php/reps/article/view/27