Validation of the Malawi Developmental Assessment Tool for children in the Dominican Republic: Preliminary results.

ABSTRACT:

Background

This study initiated the validation process of a translated and adapted version of the Malawi Developmental Assessment Tool (MDAT) for children in the Dominican Republic (DR). Like Malawi before the development of the MDAT, the DR did not have early childhood development (ECD) tools explicitly designed for low-resource areas that are also valid assessments of child development. We chose MDAT because it underwent a rigorous validation process and retained measurements of test items that were culturally adaptable from the Denver Developmental Screening Test II. We aimed to test the internal consistency and inter-rater reliability of the MDAT in children under the age of two years living in low-income neighborhoods in Santo Domingo in 2017.

Methods and findings

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SUBMITTER: Sanchez-Vincitore LV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6695133 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature