The Malawi developmental assessment tool (MDAT): The creation, validation, and reliability of a tool to assess child development in rural African settings

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Gladstone, Melissa ^a   Lancaster, Gillian A ^b   Umar, Eric ^a   Nyirenda, Maggie ^a   Kayira, Edith ^c   van den Broek, Nynke R ^d   Smyth, Rosalind L ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI   (Malawi)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c MALAWI LIVERPOOL WELLCOME TRUST CLINICAL RESEARCH PROGRAMME   (Malawi)

^d LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; HUMAN; KAPPA STATISTICS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALAWI DEVELOPENTAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; MALNUTRITION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; POPULATION RESEARCH; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RELIABILITY; RURAL AREA; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDITY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; INFANT; MALAWI; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOMETRY; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; VALIDATION STUDY;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD NUTRITION DISORDERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; HUMANS; INFANT; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALAWI; MASS SCREENING; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PSYCHOMETRICS; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RURAL POPULATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77953242425     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000273     Document Type: Article

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