@article{ref1,
title="Developmental assessments during injury research: is enrollment of very young children in crèches associated with better scores?",
journal="International journal of environmental research and public health",
year="2017",
author="Nair, Divya and Alonge, Olakunle and Derakhshani Hamadani, Jena and Sharmin Salam, Shumona and Islam, Irteja and Hyder, Adnan Ali",
volume="14",
number="10",
pages="e14101130-e14101130",
abstract="The Developmental Study is part of a larger intervention on &quot;saving of lives from drowning (SoLiD)&quot; where children were enrolled either into crèches (daycare centers) or playpens to prevent drowning in rural Bangladesh. Sampling ~1000 children between the ages of 9-17 months, we compared problem-solving, communication, motor and personal-social outcomes assessed by the Ages and Stages Questionnaire in the two interventions. After controlling for variables such as home stimulation in multivariate regressions, children in crèches performed about a quarter of a standard deviation better in total scores (p < 0.10) and 0.45 standard deviations higher in fine motor skills (p < 0.05). Moreover, once the sample was stratified by length of exposure to the intervention, then children in crèches performed significantly better in a number of domains: those enrolled the longest (about 5 months) have higher fine motor (1.47, p < 0.01), gross motor (0.40, p < 0.05) and personal-social skills (0.95, p < 0.01) than children in playpens. In addition, children in crèches with the longer exposure (about 5 months) have significantly higher personal-social and problem-solving scores than those in crèches with minimum exposure. Enrollment in crèches of very young children may be positively associated with psychosocial scores after accounting for important confounding variables.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1661-7827",
doi="10.3390/ijerph14101130",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph14101130"
}