title: Culturally appropriate measures for monitoring child development at family and community level: a WHO collaborative study.
abstract: Culturally appropriate techniques for monitoring child psychosocial development were prepared and tested in China, India and Thailand on a total of 28,139 children. This is the largest study of its kind ever undertaken. Representative groups aged between birth and 6 years were examined and the results were used to produce national development standards-separately for rural and urban children in China and India, and for all children combined in Thailand-which are considered to be more satisfactory than foreign-based standards. In each country, between 13 and 19 key milestones of psychosocial development were selected for a simplified developmental screening operation and these have been incorporated on a home-based record of a child's growth and development. Between 35 and 67 tests have been devised in each country to test the children at first-referral level.
authors.affiliation: Child-to-Child Trust, University of London Institute of Education, England.
authors.forename: R G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Lansdown
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Goldstein
authors.forename: P M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Shah
authors.forename: J H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Orley
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Di
authors.forename: K K
authors.initials: KK
authors.lastname: Kaul
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Laksanavicharn
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Reddy
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002681:China; D003469:Culture; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D012015:Reference Standards; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012494:Sampling Studies; D013785:Thailand