Measuring child functioning: Assessing correlation and agreement between caregiver and child responses at the Iganga-Mayuge health and demographic surveillance site in Uganda.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Empirical data is scare on assessment of concordance between caregiver-child responses on child functioning.

Objective

To assess correlation and agreement between children (11-17 years old) and their caregivers' responses to the UNICEF/Washington Group Child Functioning Module (CFM) at the Iganga-Mayuge Health and Demographic Surveillance Site (IM-HDSS) in Uganda.

Methods

CFM with 24-questions corresponding to 13 domains of functioning was administered to children between 11 and 17 years of age and their caregivers. Descriptive analyses of the child/caregiver responses were conducted. Correlation and agreement between caregiver and child responses were assessed.

Results

Of the 217 caregiver/child pairs eligible for this study, 181 pairs agreed to p

SUBMITTER: Zia N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8035133 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature