Kindergarten attendance may reduce developmental impairments in children: Results from the Bavarian Pre-School Morbidity Survey

Caniato, Riccardo; Alvarenga, Marlies; Stich, Heribert; Jansen, Holger; Baune, B.

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“…This underlines the importance of kindergartens not only for the individual development of the child [2] but also as an assisting institution for families with regard to the use of preventive and health care services.…”

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The influence of migratory background and parental education on health care utilisation of children

Rosenkötter

Dongen

Hellmeier³

et al. 2012

Eur J Pediatr

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School-entry screening data from North RhineWestphalia (NRW), Germany from 2007 were used to investigate child health care utilisation. We focussed on the influence of migratory background and parental education on children's (1) participation in regularly scheduled early recognition examinations, (2) immunisation uptake and (3) referrals due to a school-entry screen-detected complaint. The study sample consisted of 52,171 children out of 17 NRW districts. Bivariable, stratified and multivariable analyses were performed to identify relevant associations between social determinants and health care utilisation outcome parameters. Multivariable logistic regression showed that children belonging to families with a migratory background or low parental education were more likely to have an incomplete documentation of early recognition examinations and to be referred due to a new diagnosis. Children with migratory background were more likely to be sufficiently immunised than children with parents of German ethnicity. For all studied health care utilisation outcomes, kindergarten visit had a supportive effect. Conclusion: In general, the results of our regional study were in line with the results from national populationbased studies. Additionally, a larger likelihood of referrals due to school-screen-detected deficits in children with migratory background or low parental education was detected.

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The influence of migratory background and parental education on health care utilisation of children

Rosenkötter

Dongen

Hellmeier³

et al. 2012

Eur J Pediatr

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“…While interest in model programs for highly vulnerable children continues (Leseman 2002;Burchinal et al 2006Burchinal et al , 2010, there has also been a shift to examining the extent to which mainstream programs can help deliver on this promise of early childhood for all children (Burger 2010), notably in the US (Howes et al 2008;Vandell et al 2010), the UK with the EPPE study (Sylva et al 2004), Canada (Cleveland and Forer 2010), Germany (Caniato et al 2010), Denmark (Bauchmillar et al 2011;Jensen 2013) and China (Li et al 2014).…”

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Too late and not enough for some children: early childhood education and care (ECEC) program usage patterns in the years before school in Australia

Gilley

Tayler

Niklas

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“…Previous research on this topic has especially focused on the individual-level, particularly on the association of early childcare attendance with health and wellbeing. [11][12][13][14] However, in recent years, research examining the role of contextual and compositional characteristics of early childcare facilities on health, health behaviour and well-being in young children has steadily increased. While contextual characteristics describe the structural conditions of an institution (eg, duration of childcare, teacherchild interactions, equipment for outdoor activities, availability of healthy meals), compositional characteristics (eg, sex-ratio, age-ratio, immigrant-ratio) include aggregated information of the individuals attending the institution.…”

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Associations between contextual and compositional characteristics of early childcare facilities with health, health behaviours and well-being among young children aged 06 years: protocol for a scoping review

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IntroductionEarly childhood is an important life stage which is crucial for determining health and health inequalities in later life. At the meso-level (institutional-level), early childcare facilities (eg, kindergartens, preschools) are the most important agent of socialisation next to families in young children aged 06 years. In recent years, an increasing amount of studies has focused on contextual and compositional characteristics of early childcare facilities and their association with health (eg, self-rated health), health behaviour (eg, physical activity) and well-being (eg, emotional well-being) in this age group. However, as currently no overview of the available literature on this topic exists, we will conduct a scoping review including various study designs (eg, cross-sectional studies, prospective studies, qualitative studies).Methods and analysisWe will follow the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews. A systematic search of the following scientific databases will be conducted: PubMed/Medline, PsycInfo, Sociological Abstracts, Education Resources Information Center and The Cochrane Library. During the selection process, we will follow a two-step process. First, two reviewers will independently screen titles/abstracts of all potentially eligible articles by applying a set of previously defined inclusion and exclusion criteria. After the completion of the title/abstract screening, full texts of the remaining articles will be screened following the same procedure. To determine inter-rater agreement between reviewers, we will calculate Cohen’s Kappa after both steps. Key characteristics (eg, country of origin, sample size, study design) of included articles will be extracted. We will map the evidence available by providing a summary table on the key characteristics extracted and by presenting the associations using various types of illustrations.Ethics and disseminationSince no primary data will be collected for this review, ethical approval is not required. Our findings will be published in an international peer-reviewed journal and presented at national and international conferences.

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Kindergarten attendance may reduce developmental impairments in children: Results from the Bavarian Pre-School Morbidity Survey

Abstract: Kindergarten attendance may have a positive effect on a number of domains of development including motor, cognitive and psychosocial development, but no significant effect on speech impairments. Implications for public health policies are discussed.

Cited by 17 publications

References 24 publications

The influence of migratory background and parental education on health care utilisation of children

The influence of migratory background and parental education on health care utilisation of children

Too late and not enough for some children: early childhood education and care (ECEC) program usage patterns in the years before school in Australia

Associations between contextual and compositional characteristics of early childcare facilities with health, health behaviours and well-being among young children aged 06 years: protocol for a scoping review

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