Acute Disability in Childhood
Examination of Agreement between Various Measures
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9104620 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elisabeth Schach (Johns Hopkins University, corresponding author), Barbara Starfield (Johns Hopkins University) |
| Year | 1973 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 297-309 |
| Publication date | 1973-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Medical Care (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0025-7079 • E-ISSN: 1537-1948 |
| Publisher | Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1097/00005650-197307000-00003 |
| PMID | 4722653 |
| OpenAlex | W2060655961 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 1 |
The study was designed to develop and test new measures of acute childhood disability against standard measures used in surveys performed by the National Center for Health Statistics. Data were gathered for a random sample of 1,103 children (persons under 15 years of age) in the Baltimore SMSA. Child-specific measures defined as days with specific disability in terms of eating and sleeping problems and irritability within a 2-week period were compared with the prevalence of bed days, restricted activity days, and other health problems in the same period, and of chronic disease, impairment, or handicaps. Most short-term disability detected by standard measures is also identified by specific disability measures. Although the percentage of sick children identified by the latter decreases with age (88 per cent at less than one year of age, 54 per cent at 14 years of age), the detection of childhood disability, in particular in early childhood, may he improved by using child-specific disability measures
Irritability · Psychiatry · Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders · Child and Adolescent Health · Injury Epidemiology and Prevention · Medicine · Pediatrics
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,06 |
| Citation span | 1979 - 1989 (11) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |