Impact of a family-centred early intervention programme in South India on caregivers of children with developmental delays

Author(s):  
Sankar Sahayaraj Muthukaruppan ◽  
Cathy Cameron ◽  
Zoé Campbell ◽  
Dinesh Krishna ◽  
Rahim Moineddin ◽  
...  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mardiyanti Mardiyanti ◽  
Amanda Case

Background: Child development monitoring and screening have been mandated as a national health service worldwide, including Indonesia; however, a recent study found that Indonesian community health nurses experienced difficulties detecting and stimulating a child suspected of a developmental delay.Objective: To explore and provide an example of how Australian community health nurses, along with other professionals, contribute to a Universal child and family health service (UCFHS), a similar programme name in Indonesia is child developmental stimulating, detecting monitoring and early intervention programme or SDIDTK.Case study: This is a case study of a young Australian boy (4 years old) whom the mother reported that her son has unclear speech and he was not speaking as much as other children at his age. The researcher, as a nurse, delivered the child developmental assessment and play skills assessment and found that the child has subtle developmental gaps and was at risk for developmental delay. Several goal setting and programming ideas have been developed to meet the child developmental milestones. These include goals in fine motor skills, communication, problem-solving and personal-social skills which have been regarded as early intervention for the child. Together with the therapy from a Speech Pathologist, these goal settings and programming ideas have been collaborated with the kindergarten teachers and the family as well as the UCFHS nurses as part of the child developmental monitoring programme.Conclusion: Developmental delays can be detected through developmental and play assessments and can be followed by developmental stimulation and early intervention programme by developing goal settings and programming ideas around the delays or gaps in play or development.Funding: This study was funded by Australian Award Scholarship and Islamic State University UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta, Indonesia.


Author(s):  
Eric Y.H. Chen ◽  
Sherry Kit-wa Chan ◽  
Wing-chung Chang ◽  
Christy Lai-ming Hui ◽  
Edwin Ho-ming Lee ◽  
...  

This chapter provides a comprehensive review of some of the key issues in early intervention for psychosis using the example of a population-based service in Hong Kong, for which a full range of data is available. The authors review a number of studies addressing: (i) the DUP and its associated factors in Hong Kong; (ii) whether DUP can be changed by public awareness programmes; (iii) the immediate outcome of a two-year early intervention programme; (iv) whether the improved outcome can be sustained after the programme, over ten years; and (v) whether receiving one more year of intervention could further improve the outcome. The results show that even in a low-resource setting in Hong Kong, significant improvements in functioning can be achieved, with reduced hospitalization and reduced suicide. A long-term follow-up study observed that these effects are sustainable over ten years. Further improvements can be attained by providing longer intervention to a group that responded less favourably. However, these enhancements proved more difficult to sustain. Together, these suggest a possible dose effect on the impact and sustainability of early intervention for psychosis. Future work should aim to clarify the role of increased intervention resources such as manpower and a more defined specific programme (e.g. coaching, exercise, cognitive interventions). More work is also required to investigate the culture of early psychosis services (such as a hope-centred culture), as well as how more personalized needs of individual patients can be met.


2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 322-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philipp Sebastian Baumann ◽  
Sara Crespi ◽  
Régis Marion-Veyron ◽  
Alessandra Solida ◽  
Jacques Thonney ◽  
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2012 ◽  
Vol 39 (6) ◽  
pp. 1025-1043 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen M. Cullen ◽  
Mairi-Ann Cullen ◽  
Geoff Lindsay ◽  
Steve Strand

2017 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandhya Chauhan ◽  
Prem Lochan Prasad ◽  
Preeti Lata Rai ◽  
Bhawana Khurana

Introduction: Early intervention services play a pivotal role in the management of children with developmental delays but the utilization of these is quite low. This study aims to explore the influence of parental perceptions on the utilization of these services.Material and Methods: This is a hospital based qualitative study of 31 parents having children with developmental delay in 2 or more domains who presented for the first time for diagnostic evaluation. A semi-structured questionnaire was used in the interviews, exploring various aspects of parental perceptions regarding the child’s disability and the services required for them.Results: Apart from factors like educational and socioeconomic status of parents, accessibility of the services there are other factors involved at the level of parents which influence their readiness and motivation to utilize a service, viz understanding of the total spectrum of a child’s disability by parents and how well their child care needs are fulfilled.Conclusion: The parents’ long term motivation for utilizing the services depends upon how well their idea of a futuristic goal for their child is being addressed.


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