Casey, Triona;
Thachuthara, Aoife Jones;
Fogarty, Leanna;
Livingstone, Vicki;
De Haan, Michelle;
Marlow, Neil;
Kiely, Mairead E;
(2023)
Validation of a touchscreen assessment tool to screen for cognitive delay at 24 months.
Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology
10.1111/dmcn.15555.
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Abstract
Aim: To validate a touchscreen assessment as a screening tool for mild cognitive delay in typically developing children aged 24 months. Method: Secondary analysis of data was completed from an observational birth cohort study (The Cork Nutrition & Microbiome Maternal–Infant Cohort Study [COMBINE]), with children born between 2015 and 2017. Outcome data were collected at 24 months of age, at the INFANT Research Centre, Ireland. Outcomes were the Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development, Third Edition cognitive composite score and a language-free, touchscreen-based cognitive measure (Babyscreen). Results: A total of 101 children (47 females, 54 males) aged 24 months (mean = 24.25, SD = 0.22) were included. Cognitive composite scores correlated with the total number of Babyscreen tasks completed, with moderate concurrent validity (r = 0.358, p < 0.001). Children with cognitive composite scores lower than 90 (1 SD below the mean, defined as mild cognitive delay) had lower mean Babyscreen scores than those with cognitive scores equal to or greater than 90 (8.50 [SD = 4.89] vs 12.61 [SD = 3.68], p = 0.001). The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve for the prediction of a cognitive composite score less than 90 was 0.75 (95% confidence interval = 0.59–0.91; p = 0.006). Babyscreen scores less than 7 were equivalent to less than the 10th centile and identified children with mild cognitive delay with 50% sensitivity and 93% specificity. Interpretation: Our 15-minute, language-free touchscreen tool could reasonably identify mild cognitive delay among typically developing children.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Validation of a touchscreen assessment tool to screen for cognitive delay at 24 months |
| Location: | England |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1111/dmcn.15555 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1111/dmcn.15555 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2023 The Authors. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Mac Keith Press. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | Science & Technology, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Clinical Neurology, Pediatrics, Neurosciences & Neurology, BAYLEY-III, CHILDREN, PRETERM, INFANT, SCALES, NORMS |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL EGA Institute for Womens Health UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL GOS Institute of Child Health UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL EGA Institute for Womens Health > Neonatology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL GOS Institute of Child Health > Developmental Neurosciences Dept |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10166958 |
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