Development of a predictive risk model for school readiness at age 3 years using the UK Millennium Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The aim of this study is to develop a predictive risk model (PRM) for school readiness measured at age 3 years using perinatal and early infancy data.

Design and participants

This paper describes the development of a PRM. Predictors were identified from the UK Millennium Cohort Study wave 1 data, collected when participants were 9 months old. The outcome was school readiness at age 3 years, measured by the Bracken School Readiness Assessment. Stepwise selection and dominance analysis were used to specify two models. The models were compared by the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUROC) and integrated discrimination improvement (IDI).

Results

Data were available for 9487 complete cases. At age 3, 11.7% (95% CI 11.0% to 12.3%) of child

SUBMITTER: Camacho C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6596936 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature