چکیده:
Objectives: Monitoring development in infancy results in early detection of developmental delay, and early intervention can prevent sever complications of developmental disorders. The purpose of this study was to determine quality of developmental screening of 3- 12 months infants referred to Tehran Health Centers, through comparing with screening by Bayley Infant Neurodevelopmental Screener II (BINS II). Method: This was a cross- sectional study. 155 infants of 3-12 months old, recourse to Tehran Health Centers, screened developmentally with BINS II and its results was compared with results of routine clinical examination of Tehran Health Centers. Results: Kappa agreement between results of BINS II and results of routine developmental screening of Tehran Health Centers’ clinical examination of 3- 12- month old infants was poor (0.18). Discussion: Routine clinical examination in Tehran Health Centers, in compare with applying standard screening tools, cannot screen all infants at risk of developmental delay and ignores many of them which should be considered either for follow up or for receiving early intervention services.
خلاصه ماشینی:
Quality of Developmental screening of 3-12-month infants through comparing with screening by Bayley Infant Neurodevelopmental Screener II Fariba Karamian; Faranak Aliabadi*; Malahat Akbarfahimi; Reihaneh Askary Kachoosangy; Sara Mortazavi Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Mostafa Ghorbani Alborz University of Medical Sciences, Karaj, Iran Monitoring development in infancy results in early detection of developmental delay, and early intervention can prevent sever complications of developmental disorders.
The purpose of this study was to determine quality of developmental screening of 3- 12 months infants referred to Tehran Health Centers, through comparing with screening by Bayley Infant Neurodevelopmental Screener II (BINS II).
Results: Kappa agreement between results of BINS II and results of routine developmental screening ofTehran Health Centers’ clinical examination of 3- 12- month old infants was poor (0.
Discussion: Routine clinical examination in Tehran Health Centers, in compare with applying standard screening tools, cannot screen all infants at risk of developmental delay and ignores many of them which should be considered either for follow up or for receiving early intervention services Objectives: .
The literature review did not present any study to investigate the quality of routine developmental examinations, and its adequacy in infants developmental screening, so, this study aimed to determine this issue through comparing its result with developmental screening by BINS II in age 3- 12 months in Tehran health centers.
The poor kappa coefficient indicates that clinical examination which now is routine in Tehran health centers cannot detect all at risk 3-12- month infants in compare with a standard screening tools such as BINS II.