TY - JOUR
T1 - Psychometric properties of the Brief Infant-Toddler Social and Emotional Assessment (BITSEA) in two-year-old Ivorian and Ghanaian children
AU - on behalf of the International CDS Study Group
AU - Barthel, Dana
AU - Kriston, Levente
AU - Guo, Nan
AU - Yao, Esther Doris
AU - Armel, Koffi Ekissi Jean
AU - Fordjour, Daniel
AU - Mohammed, Yasmin
AU - Kotchi, Carine Esther Bony
AU - Eberhardt, Kirsten Alexandra
AU - Hinz, Rebecca
AU - Ehrhardt, Stephan
AU - Bindt, Carola
N1 - Funding Information:
for this research was provided by the German Research Foundation [Stephan Ehrhardt, DFG; grant EH 384/1-1]. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. URL of the funder: http://www.dfg.de/. We thank all women and children who participated in our study and all members of both study teams in Abidjan and Kumasi. Furthermore, we thank all members of the International CDS Study Group. Members of the International CDS Study Group comprises (in addition to the authors and in alphabetical order): John Appiah-Poku (Kumasi, Ghana), Claus Barkmann (Hamburg, Germany), Jana Baum (Hamburg, Germany), Gerd D. Burchard (Hamburg, Germany), Lisa Claussen (Hamburg, Germany), Simon Deymann (Hamburg, Germany), Torsten Feldt (Hamburg, Germany), Heike Ewert (Hamburg, Germany), Nan Guo (Baltimore, USA), Andreas Hahn (Berlin, Germany), Anna Jaeger (Hamburg, Germany), Wibke Loag (Hamburg, Germany), Juergen May (Hamburg, Germany), Koffi Mathurin (Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire), Eliezer N'Goran (Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire), Samuel Blay Nguah (Kumasi, Ghana), Yaw Osei (Kumasi, Ghana), Dorcas Owusu (Kumasi, Ghana), Sarah Posdzich (Hamburg, Germany), Birgit Reime (Hamburg, Germany), Lisa Schlueter (Hamburg, Germany), Stefanie Schoppen (Hamburg, Germany), Egbert Tannich (Hamburg, Germany), Harry Tagbor (Kumasi, Ghana).
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PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - There is a lack of feasible and psychometrically sound instruments assessing social-emotional development in young children in low- and middle-income countries. The objective of this cross-sectional study was to investigate the psychometric properties of the Brief Infant-Toddler Social and Emotional Assessment (BITSEA) in two West-African populations. We administered the BITSEA in an interview-based mode to 289 mothers from Côte d'Ivoire and 227 mothers from Ghana for assessing their two-year-old children. In confirmatory factor analyses of four possible underlying theoretical models, we found only minimal support for the validity of the Problem scale and no support for the validity of the Competence scale. Consequently, without adaptation and subsequent validation of the modified version we cannot recommend the use of the BITSEA in West-African countries.
AB - There is a lack of feasible and psychometrically sound instruments assessing social-emotional development in young children in low- and middle-income countries. The objective of this cross-sectional study was to investigate the psychometric properties of the Brief Infant-Toddler Social and Emotional Assessment (BITSEA) in two West-African populations. We administered the BITSEA in an interview-based mode to 289 mothers from Côte d'Ivoire and 227 mothers from Ghana for assessing their two-year-old children. In confirmatory factor analyses of four possible underlying theoretical models, we found only minimal support for the validity of the Problem scale and no support for the validity of the Competence scale. Consequently, without adaptation and subsequent validation of the modified version we cannot recommend the use of the BITSEA in West-African countries.
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U2 - 10.1080/10888691.2021.1931216
DO - 10.1080/10888691.2021.1931216
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85107534351
SN - 1088-8691
VL - 26
SP - 567
EP - 577
JO - Applied Developmental Science
JF - Applied Developmental Science
IS - 3
ER -