Practice of Early Childhood Developmental Milestone Assessment and Its Determinants Among Health Professionals Working at Public Hospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: A Cross-Sectional Study.
developmental milestone assessment
early childhood
practice
Journal
Pediatric health, medicine and therapeutics
ISSN: 1179-9927
Titre abrégé: Pediatric Health Med Ther
Pays: New Zealand
ID NLM: 101655856
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2021
2021
Historique:
received:
25
03
2021
accepted:
03
08
2021
entrez:
6
12
2021
pubmed:
7
12
2021
medline:
7
12
2021
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Early childhood developmental assessment refers to the continual process of observing, gathering, recording, and interpreting information to make developmental and instructional decisions and measure young children's performance over time. Significant changes in the physical and neuropsychomotor developmental milestones take place in the first 2 years of life. Children younger than 3 years of age (36 months) who are at risk of having developmental delays may be eligible for early intervention treatment services. The study aimed to assess practice in early childhood developmental assessment and its determinants among health professionals working in public hospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. This facility-based descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted from September to April 2018, with a total sample size of 268 health professionals from six public hospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The data were entered into EpiData software version 4.2, and analyzed by SPSS version 23 software for bivariate and multivariable logistic regression analysis. Significant associations were taken as The practice of early childhood developmental milestone assessment was found to be 27.8%. Being a general practitioner (AOR=23.826, 95% CI: 6.77-83.9, Practice of early childhood developmental milestone assessment remains poor. Training and sharing experiences among different professions, and assigning professionals with the highest levels of work experience in the service could improve the practice levels.
Sections du résumé
BACKGROUND
BACKGROUND
Early childhood developmental assessment refers to the continual process of observing, gathering, recording, and interpreting information to make developmental and instructional decisions and measure young children's performance over time. Significant changes in the physical and neuropsychomotor developmental milestones take place in the first 2 years of life. Children younger than 3 years of age (36 months) who are at risk of having developmental delays may be eligible for early intervention treatment services. The study aimed to assess practice in early childhood developmental assessment and its determinants among health professionals working in public hospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
METHODS
METHODS
This facility-based descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted from September to April 2018, with a total sample size of 268 health professionals from six public hospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The data were entered into EpiData software version 4.2, and analyzed by SPSS version 23 software for bivariate and multivariable logistic regression analysis. Significant associations were taken as
RESULTS
RESULTS
The practice of early childhood developmental milestone assessment was found to be 27.8%. Being a general practitioner (AOR=23.826, 95% CI: 6.77-83.9,
CONCLUSION
CONCLUSIONS
Practice of early childhood developmental milestone assessment remains poor. Training and sharing experiences among different professions, and assigning professionals with the highest levels of work experience in the service could improve the practice levels.
Identifiants
pubmed: 34866960
doi: 10.2147/PHMT.S300397
pii: 300397
pmc: PMC8638751
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
521-532Informations de copyright
© 2021 Tesfay et al.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
The authors report no conflicts of interest in this work.
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