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Grading severity of childhood disablement: comparing survey measures with a paediatrician's assessment
Author(s) -
HIRST MICHAEL,
COOKE KENNETH
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
child: care, health and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.832
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1365-2214
pISSN - 0305-1862
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2214.1988.tb00568.x
Subject(s) - medicine , grading (engineering) , pediatrics , quantitative assessment , engineering , civil engineering , risk analysis (engineering)
Summary This study investigates the relationship between a paediatrician's assessment of the overall severity of disablement in a sample of 10‐year‐old children and the survey data on which this assessment was based. An attempt was made to identify disabilities or combinations of disabilities which were good predictors of the paediatrician's assessment. It was possible to do this with some success with children assessed as severely disabled but it was much more difficult to do so where the degree of disablement was assessed as mild or moderate. The implications of these findings for the assessment of children with disabilities which are less than severe are discussed.