Developmental Assessments during Injury Research: Is Enrollment of Very Young Children in Crèches Associated with Better Scores?

Divya Nair, Olakunle Alonge, Jena Derakhshani Hamadani, Shumona Sharmin Salam, Irteja Islam and Adnan A. Hyder
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Divya Nair: Department of International Health, International Injury Research Unit, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Olakunle Alonge: Department of International Health, International Injury Research Unit, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Jena Derakhshani Hamadani: International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, GPO Box 128, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh
Shumona Sharmin Salam: International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, GPO Box 128, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh
Irteja Islam: International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, GPO Box 128, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh
Adnan A. Hyder: Department of International Health, International Injury Research Unit, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA

IJERPH, 2017, vol. 14, issue 10, 1-10

Abstract: The Developmental Study is part of a larger intervention on “saving of lives from drowning (SoLiD)” where children were enrolled either into crèches (daycare centers) or playpens to prevent drowning in rural Bangladesh. Sampling ~1000 children between the ages of 9–17 months, we compared problem-solving, communication, motor and personal-social outcomes assessed by the Ages and Stages Questionnaire in the two interventions. After controlling for variables such as home stimulation in multivariate regressions, children in crèches performed about a quarter of a standard deviation better in total scores ( p < 0.10) and 0.45 standard deviations higher in fine motor skills ( p < 0.05). Moreover, once the sample was stratified by length of exposure to the intervention, then children in crèches performed significantly better in a number of domains: those enrolled the longest (about 5 months) have higher fine motor (1.47, p < 0.01), gross motor (0.40, p < 0.05) and personal-social skills (0.95, p < 0.01) than children in playpens. In addition, children in crèches with the longer exposure (about 5 months) have significantly higher personal-social and problem-solving scores than those in crèches with minimum exposure. Enrollment in crèches of very young children may be positively associated with psychosocial scores after accounting for important confounding variables.

Keywords: cognitive; psychosocial; crèche; daycare; child development; Bangladesh; Ages and Stages Questionnaire (ASQ); early childhood development (ECD); early childhood care (ECC) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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