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Smartphone-based developmental screening by community health care workers
Dissertation (MCommunication Pathology)--University of Pretoria, 2016.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/57198 Smartphone-based developmental screening by community health care workers Swanepoel, De Wet malekarabo@gmail.com Van der Linde, Jeannie Maleka, Boledi Karabo UCTD Dissertation (MCommunication Pathology)--University of Pretoria, 2016. Developmental delays are more prevalent in lower income countries such as South Africa. However, access to developmental screening is severely limited. This study evaluated an mHealth version of a standard developmental screening tool, Parents Evaluation Developmental Status (PEDS) and PEDS: Developmental Milestones (PEDS:DM) for use by community health workers (CHWs) in terms of (1) correspondence with conventional paper-based testing by a speech language pathologist (SLP) and (2) inter-rater reliability compared to an SLP. CHWs were trained in a primary health care (PHC) setting to administer the newly developed smartphone application version of the PEDS tools. A quantitative cross sectional, within subject research design was followed, by implementing a survey method. One SLP and two CHWs recruited 207 caregivers who were attending a baby wellness clinic. Caregivers were tested by one CHW using the smartphone application of the PEDS tools, a qualified SLP simultaneously recorded and scored the PEDS tools on the same participants. High positive (100%) and negative correspondence (96%) was found between the paper-based PEDS tools and the smartphone application PEDS tools and between the SLP and CHW. Almost perfect (Cohen s Kappa) inter-rater agreement between conditions was demonstrated (??=0.873 to ??=0.961). Outcomes of the smartphone application, operated by a CHW, corresponded closely to the gold standard PEDS tools operated by a health professional. Trained CHWs can conduct accurate developmental screening using the smartphone version of the PEDS tools. The smartphone version of the PEDS tools could be used as part of the Community Oriented Primary Care (COPC). tm2016 Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology MCommunication Pathology Unrestricted 2016-10-14T07:32:11Z 2016-10-14T07:32:11Z 2016-08-31 2016 Dissertation Maleka, BK 2016, Smartphone-based developmental screening by community health care workers, MCommunication Pathology Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/57198> S2016 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/57198 en © 2016 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Smartphone-based developmental screening by community health care workers |
| title | Smartphone-based developmental screening by community health care workers |
| title_full | Smartphone-based developmental screening by community health care workers |
| title_fullStr | Smartphone-based developmental screening by community health care workers |
| title_full_unstemmed | Smartphone-based developmental screening by community health care workers |
| title_short | Smartphone-based developmental screening by community health care workers |
| title_sort | smartphone based developmental screening by community health care workers |
| topic | UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/57198 |