Culturally appropriate measures for monitoring child development at family and community level: a WHO collaborative study.
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.
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Child-to-Child Trust, University of London Institute of Education, England.
Goldstein
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Shah
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Orley
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Di
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Kaul
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Kumar
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Laksanavicharn
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Reddy
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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