Thanks to families: how have we validated a tool to measure child development?
Thanks to families: how have we validated a tool to measure child development?
Understanding how children grow and develop during the first years of life is essential for families, healthcare professionals, and society as a whole. As parents, you observe your child’s abilities, behaviours, and progress every day. These everyday observations are especially valuable during early childhood, a period marked by very rapid development in areas such as movement, communication, learning, emotions, and social interaction. The aim of this study was to ensure that the Developmental Profile-3 (DP-3) you completed accurately reflects children’s development and can be confidently used with families in Spain.
The DP-3 is a parent-reported questionnaire based on caregivers’ knowledge of their child’s everyday behaviours and skills. Although the DP-3 has been used internationally and a Spanish version was already available, it had not yet been independently evaluated […]
