Afsaneh Karbasi Amel, Helia Rahnamaei, Zeinab Hashemi
Play therapy and storytelling intervention on children's social skills with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder
Journal of education and health promotion
increasing international interest placebased approaches improve early childhood development ecd outcomes available data evidence limited precludes well informed policy practice change developing evidencebase communitylevel effects ecd one way facilitate informed targeted community action paper presents overall final findings kids communities study kics australian mixed methods investigation communitylevel effects ecd five domains influencephysical social governance service sociodemographic twenty five local communities suburbs across australia selected based diagonality type ie whether performed better offdiagonal positive worse offdiagonal negative expected ondiagonal australian early development census aedc relative socioeconomic profile approach designed determine replicable modifiable factors separate socioeconomic status 20152017 stakeholder interviews n 146 parent service provider focus groups n 51 existing socioeconomic early childhood education care administrative data collected qualitative quantitative data analyses undertaken understand differences 14 paired disadvantaged local communities ie versus offdiagonal analysis qualitative data elicited important factors 25 local communities developed draft set foundational community factors fcfs factors lay foundations good community young children