The ESSENCE-Q: Can specialist supervision improve scoring agreement across specialist and public health nurses/nursery teachers?

ESSENCE-Q nursery school teacher public health nurse

Journal

Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992)
ISSN: 1651-2227
Titre abrégé: Acta Paediatr
Pays: Norway
ID NLM: 9205968

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
16 Oct 2023
Historique:
revised: 28 09 2023
received: 22 06 2023
accepted: 04 10 2023
medline: 17 10 2023
pubmed: 17 10 2023
entrez: 17 10 2023
Statut: aheadofprint

Résumé

This study aimed to explore whether the supervision of community public health nurses (PHNs) and nursery school teachers (NSTs) by a specialist, familiar with Early Symptomatic Syndromes Eliciting Neurodevelopmental Clinical Examinations (ESSENCE), improved the agreement of ESSENCE-Questionnaire (ESSENCE-Q) scoring, across raters. A PHN, two NSTs, and a speech-language pathologist (SLP), familiar with ESSENCE, independently assessed 32 children. The ESSENCE-Q results were divided into the first (child 1-18) and second groups (the 19th child and the following children). Changes in score discrepancies were analysed for ESSENCE-Q cutoff scores and total ESSENCE-Q scores across raters. The SLP scores were used as a reference to evaluate sensitivity and specificity. The total ESSENCE-Q scores of the PHN and NSTs showed higher concordance in the second group (p < 0.05). Comparisons of the differences between the PHN/NSTs and SLP in total ESSENCE-Q scores showed a significantly smaller difference in the NSTs' scores in the second group (p < 0.05). The findings suggest that specialist supervision may lead to a better agreement between PHN and NSTs regarding ESSENCE-Q scores.

Identifiants

pubmed: 37846436
doi: 10.1111/apa.17001
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

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Informations de copyright

© 2023 Foundation Acta Paediatrica. Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

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Auteurs

Noriko Kitazoe (N)

Kochi Gillberg Neuropsychiatry Centre, Kochi Treatment and Welfare Center, Kochi, Japan.

Sae Mimoto (S)

Kochi Gillberg Neuropsychiatry Centre, Kochi Treatment and Welfare Center, Kochi, Japan.

Ichiro Fukunaga (I)

Kochi Gillberg Neuropsychiatry Centre, Kochi Treatment and Welfare Center, Kochi, Japan.
Chuo-Nishi Public Health and Welfare Office, Kochi Prefectural Government, Kochi, Japan.

Masako Hamaguchi (M)

Kochi Gillberg Neuropsychiatry Centre, Kochi Treatment and Welfare Center, Kochi, Japan.
The child development support programs COLORFUL PIECE, Kochi, Japan.

Yuhei Hatakenaka (Y)

Kochi Gillberg Neuropsychiatry Centre, Kochi Treatment and Welfare Center, Kochi, Japan.
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan.
Gillberg Neuropsychiatry Centre, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Christopher Gillberg (C)

Gillberg Neuropsychiatry Centre, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.

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