Early child development in England: cross-sectional analysis of ASQ^®-3 records from the 2-2½-year universal health visiting review using national administrative data (Community Service Dataset, CSDS).

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The Ages & Stages Questionnaire 3rd Edition (ASQ^®-3) is a tool to measure developmental delay for children aged between 1 - 66 months originally developed in the United States. This measure has been collected in England since 2015 as a part of mandated 2-2½-year health visiting reviews and collated nationally in the Community Services Dataset (CSDS). CSDS is known to be incomplete and to-date there have not been any published analyses of ASQ^®-3 held within CSDS.

Objectives

This study aimed to a) identify a subset of complete child development data for children aged two in England using ASQ^®-3 data in CSDS between 2018/19-2020/21; b) use this subset of data to analyse child development age 2-2½-years in England.

Methods

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SUBMITTER: Jung J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11934300 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature