Amaal Abrahams, Lunelle Pienaar, Kishor Bugarith, Geney Gunston, Elmi Badenhorst
A foundational knowledge assessment tool to predict academic performance of medical students in first-year anatomy and physiology
Advances in physiology education
organized childcare ideal setting promote gross motor development young children lowincome minority families threegroup clustered randomized controlled trial conducted head start centers serving lowincome latino children evaluate impact 8month comprehensive obesityprevention intervention childrens percentile scores locomotive skills ls pctl ball skills bs pctl general motor quotient gmq trained head start staff delivered centerbased intervention cbi modify center physical activity nutrition policies staff practices child behaviors homebased intervention hbi offered training support parents obesity prevention home participants 3yearold children n 310 87 latino 58 female enrolled head start centers south texas twelve centers randomized 111 ratio receive cbi cbi hbi cbi hbi control treatment posttest data collected 791 participants gross motor development measures improved significantly children cbi compared control children cbi hbi showed improvement gmq p 009 ls pctl p 0001 compared control comprehensive culturally competent intervention targeting childcare centers childrens homes effective improving childrens gross motor development reducing disparities child development