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Use of Family Care Indicators and Their Relationship with Child Development in Bangladesh

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Hamadani, Jena D, Tofail, Fahmida, Hilaly, Afroza, Huda, Syed N, Engle, Patrice, Grantham-McGregor, Sally M·2010·Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition

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Poor stimulation in the home is one of the main factors affecting the development of children living in poverty. The family care indicators (FCIs) were developed to measure home stimulation in large populations and were derived from the Home Observations for Measurement of the Environment (HOME). The FCIs were piloted with 801 rural Bangladeshi mothers of children aged 18 months. Five subscales were created: 'play activities' (PA), 'varieties of play materials' (VP), 'sources of play materials', 'household books', and 'magazines and newspapers' (MN). All subscales had acceptable short-term reliability. Mental and motor development of the children was assessed on the Bayley Scales of Infant Development and their language expression and comprehension by mothers' report. After controlling for socioeconomic variables, VP and PA independently predicted four and three of the developmental outcomes respectively, and MN predicted both the Bayley scores. The FCI is promising as a survey-based indicator of the quality of children's home environment.

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  • The relation between home stimulation quality and cognitive outcomes varies by context and developmental stage.

    “The scant existing evidence suggests that this relation varies by context and developmental stage.”

    From Early Family Experiences and Neural Activity in Rural Pakistani Children: The Differential Role of Gender (2024) · cites this paper as Hamadani et al. 2010

    The Discussion (page not available) suggests that household books may predict child development differently in populations where free school-books are not distributed, supporting context-dependent variation. The study assessed children at 18 months and does not show that the relationship varies by developmental stage. (LLM, conf=0.82)

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Authors
Hamadani, J. D., Tofail, F., Hilaly, A., Huda, S. N., Engle, P., & Grantham-McGregor, S. M.
Affiliations
  • International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research (BD)
  • University of Dhaka (BD)
  • California Polytechnic State University (US)
Corresponding author
Hamadani, Jena D
Venue
Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition
Published
2010-03-03
Volume
28
Issue
1
Pages
23-33
ISSN
1606-0997 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2098018656
Cited by
268
References
26
Citations by year
2026: 26 · 2025: 28 · 2024: 33 · 2023: 17 · 2022: 28 · 2021: 27 · 2020: 17 · 2019: 22 · 2018: 13 · 2017: 14 · 2016: 13 · 2015: 5 · 2014: 4 · 2013: 12 · 2012: 5
FWCI
6.37
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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  • Journal of Health Population and Nutrition (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • TSpace (University of Toronto) (submittedVersion)
  • DigitalCommons - CalPoly (California State Polytechnic University) (submittedVersion)
  • Bioline International (Bioline International) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • United States Agency for International Development (388-G-00-02-00125-00)
  • Styrelsen för Internationellt Utvecklingssamarbete
  • UNICEF
  • Australian Agency for International Development
  • Department for International Development
  • Vetenskapsrådet
  • Uppsala Universitet
  • International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh
  • Medical Research Council
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Nursing › Nutrition and Dietetics › Child Nutrition and Water Access
  • Social Sciences › Education › Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health › Infant Development and Preterm Care
Keywords
family environment, child development, home-based assessment, play activities, play materials, household books, language development, cognitive development, motor development, poverty, rural children, Bangladesh
MeSH terms
Analysis of Variance, Bangladesh, Child Development, Female, Humans, Infant, Language Development, Longitudinal Studies, Male, Parent-Child Relations, Play and Playthings, Psychomotor Performance, Surveys and Questionnaires, Social Environment, Socioeconomic Factors, Reproducibility of Results, Caregivers

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