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- Title
Denver Developmental Test Findings and their Relationship with Sociodemographic Variables in a Large Community Sample of 0-4-Year-Old Children.
- Authors
ÇELİKKIRAN, Seyhan; BOZKURT, Hasan; COŞKUN, Murat
- Abstract
Introduction: The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of developmental problems and relationship with sociodemographic variables in a community sample of young children. Methods: Participants included 1000 children (558 males, 442 females, age range 1-48 months, mean 18.4 months, SD 7.8 months). Children were referred generally by their parents for developmental evaluation and consultation in response to a public announcement in a district area in Istanbul, Turkey. An interview form and the Denver Developmental Screening Test II (DDST) were used for sociodemographic data and developmental evaluation. The χ² test and Pearson's correlation test were used for data analysis. Results: Seven hundred forty-one out of 1000 children (74.1%) had normal, 140 (14%) had risky, and 119 (11.9%) had abnormal findings on the DDST results. The probability of abnormal findings on the DDST results was significantly higher in males (p=0.003), the 2-4-year-old group (p<0.05), families with more than one child (p=0.001), consanguineous marriages (p<0.01), low parental educational levels and low household income (p<0.01), and in children without a history of breastfeeding (p=0.000). Immigration status and delivery mode did not have a significant effect on the probability of abnormal findings on the DDST results (p>0.05). Conclusion: Sociodemographic factors have a noteworthy impact on development. Determining these factors is important especially during the first years of life.
- Subjects
TURKEY; CHI-squared test; CHILD development deviations; CONFIDENCE intervals; STATISTICAL correlation; DENVER Developmental Screening Test; FATHERS; FISHER exact test; MOTHERS; SOCIOECONOMIC factors; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; ODDS ratio; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Archives of Neuropsychiatry / Nöropsikiyatri Arşivi, 2015, Vol 52, Issue 2, p180
- ISSN
1300-0667
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5152/npa.2015.7230