Developmental screening-evaluation of an m-Health version of the parents evaluation developmental status tools

dc.contributor.authorMaleka, Boledi Karabo
dc.contributor.authorVan der Linde, Jeannie
dc.contributor.authorGlascoe, Frances Page
dc.contributor.authorSwanepoel, De Wet
dc.contributor.emailjeannie.vanderlinde@up.ac.zaen
dc.date.accessioned2017-06-05T06:50:53Z
dc.date.issued2016-12en
dc.description.abstractBACKGROUND : Developmental delays are more prevalent in low-income countries and access to developmental screening is severely limited. INTRODUCTION : This study evaluated an m-Health version of a standard developmental screening tool, Parents Evaluation Developmental Status (PEDS) and PEDS: Developmental Milestones (PEDS:DM) for use by community health workers (CHWs) in terms of (1) correspondence with conventional paper-based testing by a speech language pathologist (SLP) and (2) inter-rater reliability compared to an SLP. METHOD : CHWs were trained in a primary healthcare (PHC) setting to administer the newly developed smartphone application version of the PEDS tools. One SLP and two CHWs recruited 207 caregivers who were attending a baby wellness clinic. Caregivers were tested by one CHW using the smartphone application of the PEDS tools; a qualified SLP simultaneously recorded and scored the PEDS tools on the same participants. RESULTS : High positive (100%) and negative correspondence (96%) was found between the paper-based PEDS tools and the smartphone application PEDS tools and between the SLP and CHW. Almost perfect (Cohen’s Kappa) inter-rater agreement between conditions was demonstrated (j = 0.873 to j = 0.961). CONCLUSION : Outcomes of the smartphone application, operated by a CHW, corresponded closely to the gold standard PEDS tools operated by a health professional. Trained CHWs can conduct accurate developmental screening using the smartphone version of the PEDS tools.en_ZA
dc.description.departmentSpeech-Language Pathology and Audiologyen
dc.description.embargo2017-12-30
dc.description.urihttp://online.liebertpub.com/TMJen
dc.identifier.citationMaleka, B.K., Van der Linde, J., Glascoe, F.P. & Swanepoel, D. 2016, 'Developmental screening-evaluation of an m-Health version of the parents evaluation developmental status tools', Telemedicine and e-Health, vol. 22, no. 12.en
dc.identifier.issn1556-3669 (online)en
dc.identifier.issn1530-5627 (print)en
dc.identifier.other10.1089/tmj.2016.0007en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/60794
dc.language.isoEnglishen
dc.publisherMary Ann Lieberten
dc.rights© 2016 Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. All rights reserved.en
dc.subjectE-healthen
dc.subjectM-healthen
dc.subjectPediatricsen
dc.subjectTechnologyen
dc.subjectParents evaluation developmental status (PEDS)en
dc.subjectCommunity health worker (CHW)en
dc.titleDevelopmental screening-evaluation of an m-Health version of the parents evaluation developmental status toolsen_ZA
dc.typePostprint Articleen

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