Child development assessment tools in low-income and middle-income countries: How can we use them more appropriately?

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 482-488

  Sabanathan, Saraswathy ^a,b   Wills, Bridget ^a,b   Gladstone, Melissa ^c  

^a OXFORD UNIVERSITY CLINICAL RESEARCH UNIT   (Viet Nam)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD DEVELOPMENT ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONTENT VALIDITY; CONVERGENT VALIDITY; CRITERION REFERENCED TEST; CRITERION RELATED VALIDITY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISCRIMINANT VALIDITY; EARLY CHILDHOOD INTERVENTION; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; LOW INCOME AND MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRY; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; PSYCHOMETRY; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOCIAL CLASS; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CHILD WELFARE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; INCOME; MASS SCREENING; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POVERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOCIOECONOMICS;

CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; CHILD WELFARE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; HUMANS; INCOME; MASS SCREENING; POVERTY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84928177978     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2014-308114     Document Type: Article

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