1Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, KVG Medical College, Sullia, DK, Karnataka
2Consultant Pediatrician, St Sebastian Hospital, Cherapuzha, Kannur, Kerala
3Professor, Department of Physiology, KVG Medical College, Sullia, DK, Karnataka
Online published on 13 February, 2017.
To develop and validate a simple screening tool for identifying developmental delay among children of 0–3 years of age in the community.
100 children from 0–3 Years of age were randomly taken from paediatric opd and screened using TDSC against DDST as a reference standard.
When one item delay in TDSC (0–3 y) was considered as ‘TDSC delay’ (test positive), the sensitivity and specificity of TDSC (0-3y) was found to be 83.33% and 91.49% respectively with a Negative Predictive Value of 98.85% and odds ratio of 53.75% with p value 0.0006.
TDSC (0-3y) is a simple, reliable and valid screening tool for identify children between 0 and 3 y with developmental delay, enabling early intervention practices.
Development, TDSC, Delay
