The lack of population-based assessment tools is an important bottleneck problem that restricts the clinical work of early childhood development in the maternal and child health care in China. After localization, the Early Human Capacity Index, a population-based assessment tool of early childhood development for children aged 3 to 6 years, has completed the reliability and validity test and established Chinese norm, developing the Chinese Early Human Capacity Index (CheHCI). The scale can discriminate children by children's developmental level based on sex, parental education, family income and nutrition status. The tool has been widely used in Qinghai Province, Yunnan Province, Guizhou Province, Hebei Province, Henan Province, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Shanghai City, Zhejiang Province and other areas where early development projects were carried out. It enables and promotes the surveillance and intervention program of early childhood development in China.
Key words
Chinese Early Human Capacity Index /
tools /
the reliability and validity test /
Chinese norm
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