Caregiver Perceptions of Child Development : A Cross-Sectional Study
Parents play a crucial role in the promotion of early childhood development, and understanding parental perceptions of early childhood development may help enhance parental investments early in life. To explore this question, caregivers were asked...
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okr-10986-324892022-09-20T00:15:26Z Caregiver Perceptions of Child Development : A Cross-Sectional Study Chung, Esther O. Fernald, Lia C.H. Galasso, Emanuela Ratsifandrihamanana, Lisy Weber, Ann EARLY CHILD DEVELOPMENT CAREGIVER PERCEPTIONS Parents play a crucial role in the promotion of early childhood development, and understanding parental perceptions of early childhood development may help enhance parental investments early in life. To explore this question, caregivers were asked to rank their child's intelligence in comparison with other children in the community, and the rankings were compared with children's scores on an assessment of developmental abilities across multiple domains. Using cross-sectional data on children ages 16-42 months in rural Madagascar, this paper documents the discordance between caregivers' perceived early childhood development with an interviewer-based measure of early childhood development. The paper examines the determinants of caregivers' under- and over-estimation of child development using multinomial logistic regressions. The study finds that caregiver perceptions of early childhood development in Madagascar do not align consistently with an interviewer-based measure. Approximately 8 percent of the caregivers under-estimated and almost 50 percent over-estimated their children's abilities. Better child nutritional status, caregivers with a greater belief in their influence on child intelligence, and higher socioeconomic status were associated with lower odds of under- or over-estimation of early childhood development. Further research is needed to understand the common cues that caregivers use to identify child development milestones, to inform the design of parenting interventions. 2019-10-04T18:58:53Z 2019-10-04T18:58:53Z 2019-09 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/514911569873214322/Caregiver-Perceptions-of-Child-Development-A-Cross-Sectional-Study http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32489 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9030 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Africa Madagascar |
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EARLY CHILD DEVELOPMENT CAREGIVER PERCEPTIONS Chung, Esther O. Fernald, Lia C.H. Galasso, Emanuela Ratsifandrihamanana, Lisy Weber, Ann Caregiver Perceptions of Child Development : A Cross-Sectional Study |
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Parents play a crucial role in the
promotion of early childhood development, and understanding
parental perceptions of early childhood development may help
enhance parental investments early in life. To explore this
question, caregivers were asked to rank their child's
intelligence in comparison with other children in the
community, and the rankings were compared with
children's scores on an assessment of developmental
abilities across multiple domains. Using cross-sectional
data on children ages 16-42 months in rural Madagascar, this
paper documents the discordance between caregivers'
perceived early childhood development with an
interviewer-based measure of early childhood development.
The paper examines the determinants of caregivers'
under- and over-estimation of child development using
multinomial logistic regressions. The study finds that
caregiver perceptions of early childhood development in
Madagascar do not align consistently with an
interviewer-based measure. Approximately 8 percent of the
caregivers under-estimated and almost 50 percent
over-estimated their children's abilities. Better child
nutritional status, caregivers with a greater belief in
their influence on child intelligence, and higher
socioeconomic status were associated with lower odds of
under- or over-estimation of early childhood development.
Further research is needed to understand the common cues
that caregivers use to identify child development
milestones, to inform the design of parenting interventions. |
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Working Paper |
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Chung, Esther O. Fernald, Lia C.H. Galasso, Emanuela Ratsifandrihamanana, Lisy Weber, Ann |
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Chung, Esther O. Fernald, Lia C.H. Galasso, Emanuela Ratsifandrihamanana, Lisy Weber, Ann |
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Chung, Esther O. |
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Caregiver Perceptions of Child Development : A Cross-Sectional Study |
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Caregiver Perceptions of Child Development : A Cross-Sectional Study |
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Caregiver Perceptions of Child Development : A Cross-Sectional Study |
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Caregiver Perceptions of Child Development : A Cross-Sectional Study |
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Caregiver Perceptions of Child Development : A Cross-Sectional Study |
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caregiver perceptions of child development : a cross-sectional study |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2019 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/514911569873214322/Caregiver-Perceptions-of-Child-Development-A-Cross-Sectional-Study http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32489 |
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