Ayesha Sania, Christopher R. Sudfeld, Goodarz Danaei, Günther Fink et al.
OBJECTIVE: To determine the magnitude of relationships of early life factors with child development in low/middle-income countries (LMICs). DESIGN: Meta-analyses of standardised mean differences (SMDs) estimated from published and unpublished data. DATA SOURCES: We searched Medline, bibliographies o...
Gillian Lancaster, Gareth McCray, Patricia Kariger, Tarun Dua et al.
BACKGROUND: Renewed global commitment to the improvement of early child development outcomes, as evidenced by the focus of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 4, highlights an increased need for reliable and valid measures to evaluate preventive and interventional efforts designed to aff...
Gareth McCray, Dana Charles McCoy, Patricia Kariger, Magdalena Janus et al.
INTRODUCTION: With the ratification of the Sustainable Development Goals, there is an increased emphasis on early childhood development (ECD) and well-being. The WHO led Global Scales for Early Development (GSED) project aims to provide population and programmatic level measures of ECD for 0-3 years...
Vanessa Cavallera, Gillian Lancaster, Melissa Gladstone, Maureen M. Black et al.
INTRODUCTION: Children's early development is affected by caregiving experiences, with lifelong health and well-being implications. Governments and civil societies need population-based measures to monitor children's early development and ensure that children receive the care needed to thrive. To th...
Kate Milner, Raquel Bernal Salazar, Sunil Bhopal, Alexandra Brentani et al.
to implement ECD programmes at national and regional scale. We completed a literature review and participatory mixed-method evaluation of projects in Saving Brains®, Grand Challenges Canada® funded ECD portfolio across 23 low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). Using an adapted programme cycle, fin...
Kate Milner, Sunil Bhopal, Maureen M. Black, Tarun Dua et al.
Improved measurement in early child development (ECD) is a strategic focus of the WHO, UNICEF and World Bank Nurturing Care Framework. However, evidence-based approaches to monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of ECD projects in low-income and middle-income countries (LMIC) are lacking. The Grand Challen...
Nicole Petrowski, Filipa de Castro, Susan Davis-Becker, Melissa Gladstone et al.
BACKGROUND: Standards of early childhood development (ECD) are needed to determine whether children living in different contexts are developmentally on track. The Early Childhood Development Index 2030 (ECDI2030) is a population-level measure intended to be used in household surveys to collect globa...
Ambreen Nizar Merchant, Raghbir Kaur, Gareth McCray, Vanessa Cavallera et al.
BACKGROUND: To assess the neurodevelopment of children under three years, a multinational team of subject matter experts (SMEs) led by the World Health Organization (WHO) developed the Global Scales for Early Development (GSED). The measures include (1) a caregiver-reported short form (SF), (2) a di...
Melissa Gladstone, Gareth McCray, Vanessa Cavallera
<h3>Objectives</h3> This study reports on the creation and validation of the Global Scales for Early Development (GSED), an ambitious measure of child development that can be used across countries for 0–3-year-olds. The GSED measure is designed to: i) contribute to the assessment of UN Sustainable D...
Alice J. Wuermli, Mary Caroline Hiott, Elisa Ugarte, M Sajjadur Rahman et al.
PURPOSE: As of 2024, 123.2 million people had been forcibly displaced as a result of persecution, armed conflict or climate-related catastrophes, and these numbers are predicted to rise. There is a growing awareness of possible intergenerational effects of trauma on life-course health and well-being...
Ambreen Nizar Merchant, Raghbir Kaur, Gareth McCray, Vanessa Cavallera et al.
Background To assess the neurodevelopment of children under three years, a multinational team of subject matter experts (SMEs) led by the World Health Organization (WHO) developed the Global Scales for Early Development (GSED). The measures include 1) a caregiver-reported short form (SF), 2) a direc...
Melissa Gladstone, Gillian Lancaster, Patricia Kariger, Magdalena Janus et al.
<h3>Aims</h3> Over 200 million children under 5 are not reaching their developmental potential. At present, no tools exist that can measure indicators of children’s development in meaningful, valid and culturally comparable ways within or across populations. This study aimed to identify items within...
Natalie Roschnik, Jupp Dee, Stein Danielle, Abisaputra Iqbal et al.
In Malawi, 38% of children under five are stunted, and only 36% are developmentally on track. An ethnographic study using the Reality Check Approach was conducted in four villages in Ntcheu and Balaka districts in Malawi to understand caregiving-related drivers of malnutrition and poor child develop...
Alice J. Wuermli, Caroline Hiott, Elisa Ugarte, Sajjadur Rahman et al.
This cohort profile paper describes a large longitudinal prenatal birth cohort study with Rohingya refugee and host communities in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Over the course of 12 months, this study recruited 2889 pregnant women, a subsample of husbands (N=853), and, where present, an existing child a...