Ages & Stages Questionnaire–Brazil–2011

Introduction. Professionals who assess early childhood development highly benefit from reliable development screening measures. The Ages & Stages Questionnaire was adapted Brazil in 2010 and named ASQ-BR. Modifications in some items were required to improve the instrument’s psychometric properties. The present study modified the ASQ-BR to verify if those changes increase its characteristics. Method. This study researched 67 522 children from 972 public day care centers and preschools. Changes in items were made considering Cronbach’s α and item-to-total correlations. Reliability, dimensionality, and item-to-total correlations were calculated. Results. Regarding dimensionality, 86.2% of the scales in ASQ-BR-2011 were unidimensional. Internal consistency showed improvement from 2010 to 2011: 53.8% of the scales increased the α statistics against 41.2% that decreased, and 5.0% remained the same. Finally, 65.2% of the modified items showed improvement. Conclusions. Overall, the instrument’s psychometrics improved from 2010 to 2011, especially in the personal/social domain. However, it still leaves room for improvement in future studies.

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Evaluation of the Ages and Stages Questionnaire-Brazil by Early Childhood professionals

Estudos de Psicologia (Campinas) ◽

10.1590/1982-02752016000200011 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 33 (2) ◽

pp. 293-301 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Ana Carolina Monnerat FIORAVANTI-BASTOS ◽

Alberto FILGUEIRAS ◽

Maria Lucia Seidl de MOURA

Keyword(s):

Early Childhood ◽

Internal Consistency ◽

Day Care ◽

Screening Tool ◽

Fine Motor ◽

Day Care Centers ◽

Ages And Stages Questionnaire ◽

Good Internal Consistency ◽

Developmental Domains ◽

Children Development

Child development assessment is important for the development of action plans for early childhood problem prevention. There are few instruments that are systematically used in day care centers. The Ages and Stages Questionnaire-Brazil, which consists of 18 questionnaires, was adapted and used in the public day care system of Rio de Janeiro. However, studies on the user's evaluation of this screening tool have not yet been conducted. A total of 28 childhood educators who work in 6 different day care centers participated in this study. They completed two different versions of the Ages and Stages Questionnaire-Brazil: a version to Assess Beliefs of Educators about children Development and another one about the Characteristics of this screening tool. The internal consistency for 504 questionnaires was calculated and compared to the original sample. Analysis of Variance was performed to identify differences between the importance given by educators to the five developmental domains assessed in the Ages and Stages Questionnaire: gross motor, fine motor, communication, problem solving, and personal-social. Results indicated good internal consistency and the need for changes in the questionnaire to ensure clarity and adequacy to day care centers.

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Environmental Factors to Consider When Designing and Maintaining a Child's Day-Care Environment

PEDIATRICS ◽

10.1542/peds.94.6.1048 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 94 (6) ◽

pp. 1048-1050

Author(s):

Catherine Staes ◽

Sophie Balk ◽

Kathleen Ford ◽

Richard J. Passantino ◽

Antonio Torrice

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Early Childhood ◽

Child Care ◽

Environmental Factors ◽

Interior Design ◽

Environmental Quality ◽

Day Care ◽

Early Childhood Development ◽

Childhood Development ◽

Care Environment

While each panel participant approached the issue of environmental quality from a different viewpoint, they all agreed that children differ from adults with respect to their susceptibility to and interactions with their environment. Also, these differences must be considered when people create environments for child care. More research is needed to answer many important questions. Many hazards can be prevented or controlled, if recognized, and early childhood development can be enhanced through informed decisions made during the design and maintenance of CCCs. People from disciplines of public health, architecture, and interior design must work together to provide healthy and stimulating environments for our nation's children.

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Reliability and validity of the Caregiver Reported Early Development Instruments (CREDI) in impoverished regions of China

BMC Pediatrics ◽

10.1186/s12887-020-02367-4 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 20 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Ying Li ◽

Lei Tang ◽

Yu Bai ◽

Shuhang Zhao ◽

Yaojiang Shi

Keyword(s):

Early Childhood ◽

Early Development ◽

Internal Consistency ◽

Large Scale ◽

Early Childhood Development ◽

Reliability And Validity ◽

Childhood Development ◽

Middle Income ◽

Middle Income Countries ◽

Low And Middle Income

Abstract Background There is a great need in low- and middle- income countries for sound qualitative and monitoring tools assessing early childhood development outcomes. Although there are many instruments to measure the developmental status of infants and toddlers, their use in large scale studies is still limited because of high costs in both time and money. The Caregiver Reported Early Development Instruments (CREDI), however, were designed to serve as a population-level measure of early childhood development for children from birth to age three, and have been used in 17 low- and middle-income countries. This study aimed to examine the reliability and validity of the CREDI in China, which is still unknown. Methods The CREDI and the ASQ-3 was administered to a sample of 946 children aged 5–36 months from urban and rural communities, in which 248 children was administered with Bayley-III. Results The internal consistency of the CREDI was high, which indicates that the scale internal consistency reliability is quite good. The results also indicated that the concurrent validity of the CREDI with the Bayley-III scale was high in general. Ordinary least squares regression showed that the CREDI is highly consistent with previous widely used instruments in some key predictors (such as the home stimulation) of early childhood development level. Conclusions All the results in the current study indicate that the CREDI may be considered an appropriate instrument to measure early childhood development status on a large scale in impoverished regions of China.

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