PMID- 34204071
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20210713
LR  - 20210713
IS  - 1660-4601 (Electronic)
IS  - 1661-7827 (Print)
IS  - 1660-4601 (Linking)
VI  - 18
IP  - 11
DP  - 2021 Jun 6
TI  - Home Environment and Early Development of Rural Children: Evidence from Guizhou 
      Province in China.
LID - 10.3390/ijerph18116121 [doi]
LID - 6121
AB  - Delays in early child development are among the aspects underlying the persistent 
      developmental gaps between regions and social strata. This study seeks to examine 
      the relationship between the home environment and early child development in 
      less-developed rural areas by drawing on data from 445 children from villages in 
      Guizhou province in southwest China. A demographic questionnaire, the Home 
      Observation Measurement of the Environment (HOME), and the Bayley Scales of 
      Infant Development, version III (BSID-III), were used to measure the child's 
      demographic characteristics, home environment, and early development outcomes, 
      respectively. Our data show that the sample children suffer a delay in various 
      dimensions of child development and a deficit in the HOME scale. The results from 
      a hierarchical regression model suggest that the availability of learning 
      material at home, caregivers' responsiveness and organization sub-scales are 
      significantly positively correlated with the early development of sample 
      children, after controlling for general socioeconomic status, health, and 
      nutrition, and this correlation differs by gender. These results imply that the 
      provision of learning material to households, promoting caregivers' 
      responsiveness and organization in less-developed rural areas could improve early 
      child development among deprived children.
FAU - Kuhn, Lena
AU  - Kuhn L
AD  - Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economics, 06120 
      Halle, Germany.
FAU - Liu, Chengfang
AU  - Liu C
AD  - China Center for Agricultural Policy, School of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, 
      Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
FAU - Wang, Tianyi
AU  - Wang T
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-6418-3561
AD  - China Center for Agricultural Policy, School of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, 
      Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
FAU - Luo, Renfu
AU  - Luo R
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-1318-4449
AD  - China Center for Agricultural Policy, School of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, 
      Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20210606
PL  - Switzerland
TA  - Int J Environ Res Public Health
JT  - International journal of environmental research and public health
JID - 101238455
SB  - IM
MH  - Caregivers
MH  - Child
MH  - *Child Development
MH  - China
MH  - Family Characteristics
MH  - Humans
MH  - Infant
MH  - *Rural Population
PMC - PMC8201208
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - early child development
OT  - gender gap
OT  - home environment
OT  - learning material
OT  - rural China
COIS- The authors declare no conflict of interest.
EDAT- 2021/07/03 06:00
MHDA- 2021/07/14 06:00
PMCR- 2021/06/06
CRDT- 2021/07/02 01:19
PHST- 2021/04/26 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2021/05/31 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2021/06/02 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2021/07/02 01:19 [entrez]
PHST- 2021/07/03 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2021/07/14 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2021/06/06 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - ijerph18116121 [pii]
AID - ijerph-18-06121 [pii]
AID - 10.3390/ijerph18116121 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Jun 6;18(11):6121. doi: 
      10.3390/ijerph18116121.