BINS validation – Bayley neurodevelopmental screener in Brazilian preterm children under risk conditions

Abstract

Psychometric researches increase in Brazil. Bayley Infant Neurodevelopment Screener - BINS (Aylward, 1995) is a low cost, fast instrument. In 10' it classifies children under developmental risk degrees. This research purpose was investigating BINS psychometric properties. 61 low-income Brazilian preterm, were divided in groups: 31 children (12 months) and 30 children (24 months), both sex, birth weight < 2000 g. Socio-demographic-psychological profile was previously registered. Neurologists examined them through Amiel-Tison and Gosselin (2001) and physicians with Denver-DDST-II (Frankenburg, Dodds, Archer, & Bresnick, 1990). Psychologist assessed children at chronological age, with Bayley Scales-BSID-II (Bayley, 1993) and BINS (12 m) and BINS (24 m). Results demonstrated homogeneous characteristics sample. Reliability indexes were over requested standards. Validity evidences based on external variables were positive moderated and BINS (24 m)/BSID-II (mental) presented high correlation. Validity evidences based on content were attested by expertise. High sensitivity was found. So, BINS can be considered an instrument of adequate psychometric properties, able to screen children under risk, according to Psychological Association requests.

Translations of Developmental Screening Instruments

“…For example, authors of the Dutch translation of the ASQ describe using 3 separate forward and backward translations but do not include details such as who carried them out. 34 Similarly, Guedes et al 43 report using back translation in adapting the Portuguese Bayley Infant Neurodevelopmental Screener (BINS), followed by, "semantic adaptation" but do not provide further details.…”

“…30 Finally, both the Portuguese BINS and the Malawian Denver were pilot-tested on children in the target populations, after which edits were made based on feedback. 43,79 Cultural Adaptations Peer-reviewed publications included evidence that cultural considerations were taken into account for 28 out of 63 translations identified. Some articles gave specific examples of changes that were made.…”

“…For example, authors of the Portuguese translation of the BINS acknowledged the importance of cultural considerations but reported no details regarding the instrument's "content validation by professional experts." 43 In other cases, linguistic differences were considered when translating items. For example, for the Chinese and Japanese translations of the DDST, the language item "uses plurals" was excluded because there is no distinction between singular and plural of nouns in these languages.…”

Bayley-III Scales of Infant and Toddler Development: Transcultural Adaptation and Psychometric Properties

“…However, there are no studies about the translation and transcultural adaptation of the Brazilian Portuguese version of the Bayley-III scale, or its psychometric properties. There is a single study about the Bayley Infant Neurodevelopment Screener for children aged 12-24 months) (Guedes, Primi, & Kopelman, 2011). Therefore, studies on these topics are still necessary.…”

Individual and Environmental Factors Influencing Questionable Development among Low-income Children: Differential Impact during Infancy versus Early Childhood

“…Therefore, community-wide efforts to improve the social and physical environments within families, daycare, and neighborhoods are vital to reducing cumulative, negative effects on child outcomes from the beginning of life (Engle et al, 2011). has been a controversy in the reliability of Korean Denver-II even though many developmental research are still being conducted using DDST-II in both Korean and other countries (Drachler et al, 2007;Ga & Kwon, 2011;Guedes, Primi, & Kopelman, 2011). Further research is needed to establish the reliability and the validity of Korean Denver-II and develop more appropriate developmental instrument for Korean children.There is another limitation.…”