Philip J. Schluter|Jesse Kokaua|El?Shadan Tautolo|Rosalina Richards|Tufulasi Taleni|Hyun M. Kim|Richard Audas|Brigid McNeill|Barry Taylor|Gail Gillon
Patterns of early primary school-based literacy interventions among Pacific children from a nationwide health screening programme of 4 year olds
University of Queensland|University of Canterbury|University of Otago|Auckland University of Technology|University of Otago|University of Canterbury|University of Canterbury|University of Otago|University of Canterbury|University of Otago|University of Canterbury
literacy success critical unlocking childs potential enhancing future wellbeing thus early identification redressing literacy needs vital pacific children average lowest literacy achievement levels new zealand however population diverse study sought determine whether current national health screening programme preschool children could used early detection tool pacific children greatest literacy needs timetoevent analyses literacy intervention data pacific children born years 20052011 employed multivariable cox proportional hazard model fitted predictive assessment made using training test datasets overall 59760 pacific children included 6861 115 receiving least one literacy intervention tongan hazard ratio hr 133 95 confidence interval ci 123 145 cook island mori hr 133 95 ci 121 147 children likely receive intervention samoan children whereas children pacific nonpacific ethnic identifications less likely however multivariable model lacked reasonable predictive power harrells cstatistic 0592 95 ci 0583 0602 regardless important pacific subpopulations emerged would benefit targeted literacy intervention policy implementation