A Contextual Approach to Characterizing Caregiver Responsiveness in a Rural Area of The Gambia.

ABSTRACT: Interactions with caregivers play a crucial role in early development. While most of the world's children live in Majority World countries, research on caregiving predominantly uses measures developed in the Minority World (particularly North America and Europe), potentially biasing characterizations of parenting in understudied populations. This study describes the development of the "Demba Yaal Interaction Scale (DYIS)", a behavioral micro-coding scheme to assesses caregiver responsiveness in a rural, low-resource, collectivist caregiving community in The Gambia. We adopted a contextually sensitive approach by co-creating the scheme partnering Gambian researchers, familiar with the caregiving context, and UK researchers familiar with behavioral coding. The scheme was piloted on 5-min vid

SUBMITTER: Stevelt HC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12487999 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep-Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature