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. 2021 Nov 26:9:622542.
doi: 10.3389/fped.2021.622542. eCollection 2021.

NCS Assessments of the Motor, Sensory, and Physical Health Domains

Jane E Clark  1 , Russell Pate  2 , Rose Marie Rine  3 , Jennifer Christy  4 , Pamela Dalton  5 , Diane L Damiano  6 , Stephen Daniels  7 , Jonathan M Holmes  8 , Peter T Katzmarzyk  9 , Susan Magasi  10 , Ryan McCreery  11 , Kerry McIver  12 , Karl M Newell  13 , Terence Sanger  14 , David Sugden  15 , Elsie Taveras  16 , Steven Hirschfeld  17
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NCS Assessments of the Motor, Sensory, and Physical Health Domains

Jane E Clark et al. Front Pediatr. .

Abstract

As part of the National Children's Study (NCS) comprehensive and longitudinal assessment of the health status of the whole child, scientific teams were convened to recommend assessment measures for the NCS. This manuscript documents the work of three scientific teams who focused on the motor, sensory, or the physical health aspects of this assessment. Each domain team offered a value proposition for the importance of their domain to the health outcomes of the developing infant and child. Constructs within each domain were identified and measures of these constructs proposed. Where available extant assessments were identified. Those constructs that were in need of revised or new assessment instruments were identified and described. Recommendations also were made for the age when the assessments should take place.

Keywords: National Children's Study; assessment; children; motor; physical health; sensory.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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