W W Y Tso1, V C N Wong1, X Xia2, B Faragher3, M Li4, X Xu5, L Ao2, X Zhang6, F-Y Jiao7, K Du8, X Shang2, P T Y Wong1, D Challis9. 1. Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Queen Mary Hospital, The University of Hong Kong, Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong. 2. Department of Paediatrics, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming, China. 3. Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK. 4. Child Neuro-Habilitation Clinic, Department of Paediatrics, The First Hospital of Peking University, Beijing, China. 5. Child Health Care Department, The Children's Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, China. 6. Department of Child and Adolescent Health, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China. 7. Shaanxi Provincial People's Hospital of Xi'an Medical University, Xi'an, China. 8. Department of Child Neurology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of ZhengZhou University, ZhengZhou, China. 9. Association for Research in Infant and Child Development, The Portland Hospital for Women and Children, London, UK.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: The Griffiths Mental Development Scales (GMDS) are used in many countries to assess the development of children from birth to 8 years. There is a need for accurate and culturally appropriate developmental assessment tools for Chinese children. Here, we adapted the GMDS for use in Chinese children and compare the developmental trajectories between Chinese and British children. METHODS: Children with typical development were recruited from 7 urban cities in China between 2009 and 2013. The Griffiths Mental Development Scales-Chinese (GDS-C) were adapted and used to assess the development of urban Chinese children. Developmental curves were computed for 6 subscales using learning management system methods and compare against the British curves from the Griffiths Mental Development Scales-Extended Revised (GMDS-ER). RESULTS: The GDS-C were used to assess the developmental status of 815 Chinese children. Plots of the 1st, 5th, 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th, 90th, 95th, and 99th percentiles, and full percentile tables were obtained, which showed similar trends to data from the British GMDS-ER. CONCLUSIONS: The Chinese developmental curves obtained from the GDS-C showed similarities and differences to the developmental curves from the British GMDS-ER. The development of urban Chinese children should be assessed with the culturally appropriate GDS-C.
BACKGROUND: The Griffiths Mental Development Scales (GMDS) are used in many countries to assess the development of children from birth to 8 years. There is a need for accurate and culturally appropriate developmental assessment tools for Chinese children. Here, we adapted the GMDS for use in Chinese children and compare the developmental trajectories between Chinese and British children. METHODS:Children with typical development were recruited from 7 urban cities in China between 2009 and 2013. The Griffiths Mental Development Scales-Chinese (GDS-C) were adapted and used to assess the development of urban Chinese children. Developmental curves were computed for 6 subscales using learning management system methods and compare against the British curves from the Griffiths Mental Development Scales-Extended Revised (GMDS-ER). RESULTS: The GDS-C were used to assess the developmental status of 815 Chinese children. Plots of the 1st, 5th, 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th, 90th, 95th, and 99th percentiles, and full percentile tables were obtained, which showed similar trends to data from the British GMDS-ER. CONCLUSIONS: The Chinese developmental curves obtained from the GDS-C showed similarities and differences to the developmental curves from the British GMDS-ER. The development of urban Chinese children should be assessed with the culturally appropriate GDS-C.
Authors: Samantha Schildroth; Katarzyna Kordas; Julia Anglen Bauer; Robert O Wright; Birgit Claus Henn Journal: Curr Environ Health Rep Date: 2022-08-23