Social and emotional developmental vulnerability at age five in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children in New South Wales: a population data linkage study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Early childhood social and emotional development underpins later social, emotional, academic and other outcomes. The first aim of this study was to explore the association between child, family and area-level characteristics associated with developmental vulnerability, amongst Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children in their first year of school. The second aim was to quantify the magnitude of the social and emotional developmental inequalities between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children and the extent to which differences in socioeconomic disadvantage and perinatal characteristics explained this inequality.

Methods

This retrospective cohort study used cross-sectoral data linkage to identify and follow participants from birth to school age. In this way, social a

SUBMITTER: Williamson A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6668060 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature