Building a “Module on Child Functioning and Disability”

Crialesi, Roberta; Palma, Elena De; Battisti, Alessandra; Workgroup, Children’s

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-28498-9_10

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“…The CFM has been developed for measuring child functioning in surveys with parents/caregivers as proxy respondents for the child’s functioning. It has been validated in different settings [ 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 ] and was finalised in 2016. The CFM is designed for children between two and 17 years and covers a range of areas for measuring functioning difficulties, including: seeing, hearing, walking, self-care, speaking, learning, remembering, anxiety/worry, depression/sadness, controlling behaviour, attention/concentrating, accepting changes in routine and making friends.…”

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The UNICEF/Washington Group Child Functioning Module—Accuracy, Inter-Rater Reliability and Cut-Off Level for Disability Disaggregation of Fiji’s Education Management Information System

Sprunt

McPake

Marella

2019

IJERPH

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This paper explores the validity (sensitivity and specificity) of different cut-off levels of the UNICEF/Washington Group Child Functioning Module (CFM) and the inter-rater reliability between teachers and parents as proxy respondents, for disaggregating Fiji’s education management information system (EMIS) by disability. The method used was a cross-sectional diagnostic accuracy study comparing CFM items to standard clinical assessments for 472 primary school aged students in Fiji. Whilst previous domain-specific results showed “good” to “excellent” accuracy of the CFM domains seeing, hearing, walking and speaking, newer analysis shows only “fair” to “poor” accuracy of the cognitive domains (learning, remembering and focusing attention) and “fair” of the overall CFM (area under the Receiver Operating Characteristic curve: 0.763 parent responses, 0.786 teacher responses). Severe impairments are reported relatively evenly across CFM response categories “some difficulty”, “a lot of difficulty” and “cannot do at all”. Most moderate impairments are reported as “some difficulty”. The CFM provides a core component of data required for disaggregating Fiji’s EMIS by disability. However, choice of cut-off level and mixture of impairment severity reported across response categories are challenges. The CFM alone is not accurate enough to determine funding eligibility. For identifying children with disabilities, the CFM should be part of a broader data collection including learning and support needs data and undertaking eligibility verification visits.

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The UNICEF/Washington Group Child Functioning Module—Accuracy, Inter-Rater Reliability and Cut-Off Level for Disability Disaggregation of Fiji’s Education Management Information System

Sprunt

McPake

Marella

2019

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“…Early diagnosis of childhood onset disability is a critical first step in improving health related and other outcomes for this population. Studies from south Asia and Africa have demonstrated that assessments lacking adaptation to specific cultural contexts can lead to inaccurate interpretation of performance ( 33 – 35 ). Utilization of locally developed and validated assessment tools as well as inclusion of parents in assessment of CALWD would help identify and place CALWD in appropriate educational settings ( 33 – 35 ).…”

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Education for children and adolescents living with disabilities in sub–Saharan Africa—The gaps and opportunities

Samia

Oyieke

Kigen

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Front. Public Health

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“…The discussion conducted (Madans, Mont, & Loeb, 2015) exemplifies the crucial role played by the definition and the choice of the measurement method. The gap in the measurement methodology was filled by Loeb (2016a) and Meltzer (2016), who published a list of challenges that need to be addressed with respect to the measurement of disability among children and the proposal of a census module devoted to disability, which was developed by Crialesi, De Palma and Battisti (2016). Another crucial problem involved in the measurement of disability is the correct identification of environmental and contextual factors, which is discussed by Altman and Meltzer (2016).…”

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“…A higher share of disability was observed in younger age groups, especially among children. The situation calls for additional reflection on the method of measuring disability in this age group, which is also a concern pointed out by statisticians from the Washington Group (Crialesi et al, 2016;Meltzer, 2016). The analysis also helped to identify one of the causes for the lower estimates of disability in NSP 2011, namely the change of rules in disability assessment procedures.…”

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Credibility of disability estimates from the 2011 population census in Poland

Gołata

Dehnel

2021

Statistics in Transition New Series

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The problem of disability is perceived as one of the most serious social issues faced by the contemporary society. The number of people with disability is consistently rising for a variety of reasons, including the aging of the population. Data on disability are collected through numerous statistical surveys, among which censuses are the most wide-scale ones. In the period between the 2002 and 2011 censuses (the last two censuses conducted in Poland), a 14% decrease in the number of people with disabilities was observed. However, it should be emphasised that significant modifications were introduced to the methodology of the last census. Population census 2011 was the first census in Poland combing administrative data sources and the survey sampling method. The main objective of the study is to assess the quality of estimates relating to the number of disabled persons, obtained on the basis of the 2011 census data. It is a comparative study aimed at identifying the similarities and discrepancies between the estimates, and determining the size and source of these discrepancies. The analysis takes into account such aspects as the measurement methods, the definitions and criteria of disability, the voluntary nature of the question, and the quality of the information on disability obtained from various sources.

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Building a “Module on Child Functioning and Disability”

Cited by 8 publications

References 18 publications

The UNICEF/Washington Group Child Functioning Module—Accuracy, Inter-Rater Reliability and Cut-Off Level for Disability Disaggregation of Fiji’s Education Management Information System

The UNICEF/Washington Group Child Functioning Module—Accuracy, Inter-Rater Reliability and Cut-Off Level for Disability Disaggregation of Fiji’s Education Management Information System

Education for children and adolescents living with disabilities in sub–Saharan Africa—The gaps and opportunities

Credibility of disability estimates from the 2011 population census in Poland

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