background: approximately one percent of current live births of the world are conceived via assisted reproductive technologies (art). objective:  the purpose of this study was to compare the developmental status of children born through assisted and natural conceptions at the age of five years. materials and methods:  in a retrospective cohort study, developmental status of 5 years old children...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the ability of Ages and Stages Questionnaire, a parent completed developmental screening questionnaire to detect developmental delay in Indian children. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Child Development Clinic of a tertiary care center located in Northern India. PARTICIPANTS AND METHODS 200 children, 50 each in the age groups of 4±1, 10±1, 18±1 and 24±1 months ...

The psychometric properties of the Ages and Stages Questionnaire, Third Edition (ASQ-3) in a Colombian population were explored, including construct validity convergent validity. ASQ-3, its Spanish version, Escala de Abreviada del Desarrollo (Abbreviated Development Scale - EAD-3, by acronym Spanish) compared. Participants included 456 children selected at random from live births time period be...

to provide the validated and standardized form of the persian version of the ages and stages questionnaires as an appropriate developmental screening tool for evaluation of iranian children's development.this was a cross-sectional study. translation and back-translation, content validity determination, cultural and lingual modifications, pilot study on 100 parents and inter-rater reliability de...

BACKGROUND To provide the validated and standardized form of the Persian version of the Ages and Stages Questionnaires as an appropriate developmental screening tool for evaluation of Iranian children's development. METHODS This was a cross-sectional study. Translation and back-translation, content validity determination, cultural and lingual modifications, pilot study on 100 parents and inte...

INTRODUCTION The aim of this study was to obtain Ages and Stages Questionnaire (ASQ) scores from the background population so that these may be used as a reference group to extremely preterm children at nine and 18 months of corrected age. MATERIAL AND METHODS A total of 298 children were randomly chosen among the Danish population in three different groups: 9-, 18- and 21 month-old children....

Introduction. Professionals who assess early childhood development highly benefit from reliable development screening measures. The Ages & Stages Questionnaire was adapted Brazil in 2010 and named ASQ-BR. Modifications in some items were required to improve the instrument's psychometric properties. The present study modified the ASQ-BR to verify if those changes increase its characteristics. Me...

BACKGROUND Early detection of neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) enables access to early interventions for children. We assess the Ages and Stages Questionnaire (ASQ)'s ability to identify children with a NDD in population data. METHOD Children 4 to 5 years old in the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY) from cycles 5 to 8 were included. The sensitivity, specificity, po...

INTRODUCTION Preterm children are at greater risk of developmental impairment and require close follow-up for early and optimal medical care. Our goal was to examine use of the parent-completed Ages and Stages Questionnaire (ASQ) as a screening tool for neurodevelopmental disabilities in preterm infants at five years of age. PATIENTS AND METHODS A total of 648 preterm children (<35 weeks gest...