Performance of the UNICEF/UN Washington Group tool for identifying functional difficulty in rural Zimbabwean children.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Over one billion people live with disability worldwide, of whom 80% are in developing countries. Robust childhood disability data are limited, particularly as tools for identifying disability function poorly at young ages.

Methods

A subgroup of children enrolled in the Sanitation Hygiene Infant Nutrition Efficacy (SHINE) trial (a cluster-randomised, community-based, 2x2 factorial trial in two rural districts in Zimbabwe) had neurodevelopmental assessments at 2 years of age. We evaluated functional difficulty prevalence in HIV-exposed and HIV-unexposed children using the Washington Group Child Functioning Module (WGCFM), comparing absolute difference using chi-squared or Fisher's exact tests. Concurrent validity with the Malawi Developmental Assessment Tool (MDAT

SUBMITTER: Dunne TF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9480986 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature