Developmental Screening-Evaluation of an m-Health Version of the Parents Evaluation Developmental Status Tools.
Telemed J E Health. 2016 Jun 10;
Authors: Maleka BK, Van Der Linde J, Glascoe FP, Swanepoel W
Abstract
BACKGROUND: 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 (κ = 0.873 to κ = 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.
PMID: 27286191 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
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