Adapting the Bayley Scales of infant and toddler development in Ethiopia: evaluation of reliability and validity.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is a need for valid and reliable observational measures of early child development in low-income and middle-income country settings.

Methods

The aims of the study were to adapt the Bayley Scales of Infant Development (Bayley III) for a rural Ethiopian setting and evaluate reliability and validity. The study was carried out between January 2008 and January 2009 in the Butajira demographic surveillance site, south central Ethiopia. The Bayley III was adapted to be socioculturally appropriate for a rural Ethiopian context. Nurses and high school graduates were trained in administration of the measure for 10 days. Inter-rater reliability was evaluated (n = 60). Content, construct and convergent validity was then examined on a population-based cohort of children

SUBMITTER: Hanlon C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4979664 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature