Place-Based Child Opportunity at Birth and Child Development from Infancy to Age 4.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The objective of this study was to evaluate whether the children's neighborhood quality, as a measure of place-based social determinants of health, is associated with the odds of developmental delay and developmental performance up to the age of 4 years.

Study design

Mothers of 5702 children from the Upstate KIDS Study, a longitudinal population-based cohort of children born from 2008 through 2010, provided questionnaire data and a subset of 573 children participated in a clinic visit. The Child Opportunity Index 2.0 was linked to home census tract at birth. Probable developmental delays were assessed by the Ages and Stages Questionnaire up to 7 times between 4 and 36 months, and developmental performance was assessed via the Battelle Developmental Inventory at the

SUBMITTER: Putnick DL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10978256 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature