Rachel Mairi Baker, Mohasin Ahmed, Marcello Bertotti, John Cassidy, Rejoice Chipuriro, Emma Clewett, Cam Donaldson, Andrew Elders, Lee Ann Fenge, Julie Fox, Karen Galway, Aideen Gildea, Aileen McGuinness, Jennifer McLean, Sarkis Manoukian, Helen Mason, Antony Morgan, Jill Mulholland, Liam O'Hare, Andrew Paterson, Sam Porter, Jack Rendall, Michael J Roy, Peter Seaman, Merron Simpson, Artur Steiner, Michael P Kelly
Common health assets protocol: a mixed-methods, realist evaluation and economic appraisal of how community-led organisations (CLOs) impact on the health and well-being of people living in deprived areas
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characterise developmental milestones among young children living rural communities uganda crosssectional study igangamayuge health demographic surveillance site rural eastern uganda total 720 caregivers children aged 34 years old health demographic surveillance site rural eastern uganda recruited study caregivers reported childs developmental skills behaviours using 10item early childhood development index ecdi developed unicef childhood development characterised based ecdis four domains literacynumeracy learningcognition physical socioemotional development exploratory analysis implemented hierarchical agglomerative cluster analysis identify homogenous subgroups children based features assessed cluster analysis performed identify potential subgroups children may risk developmental problems november 2017 june 2018 720 caregivers children aged 34 years completed ecdi proportions children risk delay domain follows literacynumeracy 75 n538 socioemotional development 22 n157 physical 3 n22 cognitive 4 n32 cluster analysis revealed threecluster solution included 93 children assigned lowrisk group 4 assigned moderaterisk group 3 assigned highrisk group characterised low scores almost domains findings suggest high proportion children rural eastern uganda demonstrate poor literacynumeracy skills results underscore need improve populationbased screening intervention efforts improve early childhood developmental outcomes particularly literacy socioemotional domains lowincome middleincome countries uganda