A Multimedia Child Developmental Screening Checklist: Design and Validation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Identifying disability early in life confers long-term benefits for children. The Taipei City Child Development Screening tool, second version (Taipei II) provides checklists for 13 child age groups from 4 months to 6 years. However, the usability of a text-based screening tool largely depends on the literacy level and logical reasoning ability of the caregivers, as well as language barriers caused by increasing numbers of immigrants.

Objective

The objectives of this study were to (1) design and develop a Web-based multimedia version of the current Taipei II developmental screening tool, and (2) investigate the measurement equivalence of this multimedia version to the original paper-based version.

Methods

To develop the multimedia version of Taipei II, a te

SUBMITTER: Cheng HK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5099499 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature