Correction: Feasibility and acceptability of implementing the Global Scales for Early Development (GSED) package for children 0-3 years across three countries

Ambreen Nizar Merchant¹, Raghbir Kaur², Gareth McCray³, Vanessa Cavallera², Ann Weber⁴, Melissa Gladstone⁵, Magdalena Janus⁶, Imran Nisar⁷, Patricia Kariger⁸, Sunil Sazawal⁹, Arup Dutta⁹, Salahuddin Ahmed¹⁰, Yunting Zhang¹¹, Mariana Pacifico Mercadante¹², Arsene Zongo¹³, Yvonne Schönbeck¹⁴, Tarun Dua², Iris Eekhout¹⁴, Fahmida Tofail¹⁵, Maureen Black^{16

17}, Abdullah H Baqui¹⁸, Dana McCoy¹⁹, Farzana Begum⁷, Romuald Kouadio E Anago¹³, Alexandra Brentani¹², Fan Jiang¹¹, Symone Detmar¹⁴, Michelle Perez Maillard², Marcus Waldman²⁰, Stef van Buuren^{14

21}, Abbie Raikes²⁰, Katelyn Hepworth²⁰, Marta Rubio Codina²², Shirina Akhtar¹⁰, Fyezah Jehan⁷, Rasheda Khanam⁶, Hassan Naqvi⁷, Abrarul Haque Asif¹⁰, Junaid Mehmood⁷, Sidra Afzal⁷, Gillian Lancaster³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan. ambreen.nizar@aku.edu.
² Department of Mental Health and Substance Use, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
³ School of Medicine, Keele University, Keele, UK.
⁴ School of Public Health, University of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV, USA.
⁵ Department of Women and Children's Health, Institute of Life Course and Medical Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
⁶ Offord Centre for Child Studies, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
⁷ Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.
⁸ Center for Effective Global Action, University of California Berkeley School of Public Health, Berkeley, CA, USA.
⁹ Center for Public Health Kinetics, CPHK Global, Pemba, Zanzibar, Tanzania.
¹⁰ Research, Projahnmo Research Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
¹¹ Child Health Advocacy Institute, National Children's Medical Center, Shanghai Children's Medical Center Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, People's Republic of China.
¹² Department of Pediatrics, University of São Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, Brazil.
¹³ Innovations for Poverty Action, IPA Côte d'Ivoire, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.
¹⁴ Department of Child Health, Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research, Leiden, Netherlands.
¹⁵ Nutrition and Clinical Services Division (NCSD), International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
¹⁶ International Education, RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA.
¹⁷ Department of Pediatrics, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
¹⁸ International Center for Maternal and Newborn Health, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
¹⁹ Education Policy and Program Evaluation, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA, USA.
²⁰ Health Promotion, University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Public Health, Omaha, NE, USA.
²¹ Department of Methodology and Statistics, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands.
²² Social Protection and Health Division, Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, DC, USA.

PMID: 40155994
PMCID: PMC11951581
DOI: 10.1186/s40814-025-01620-w

Published Erratum

Correction: Feasibility and acceptability of implementing the Global Scales for Early Development (GSED) package for children 0-3 years across three countries

Ambreen Nizar Merchant et al. Pilot Feasibility Stud. 2025.

. 2025 Mar 28;11(1):34.

doi: 10.1186/s40814-025-01620-w.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan. ambreen.nizar@aku.edu.
² Department of Mental Health and Substance Use, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
³ School of Medicine, Keele University, Keele, UK.
⁴ School of Public Health, University of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV, USA.
⁵ Department of Women and Children's Health, Institute of Life Course and Medical Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
⁶ Offord Centre for Child Studies, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
⁷ Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.
⁸ Center for Effective Global Action, University of California Berkeley School of Public Health, Berkeley, CA, USA.
⁹ Center for Public Health Kinetics, CPHK Global, Pemba, Zanzibar, Tanzania.
¹⁰ Research, Projahnmo Research Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
¹¹ Child Health Advocacy Institute, National Children's Medical Center, Shanghai Children's Medical Center Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, People's Republic of China.
¹² Department of Pediatrics, University of São Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, Brazil.
¹³ Innovations for Poverty Action, IPA Côte d'Ivoire, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.
¹⁴ Department of Child Health, Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research, Leiden, Netherlands.
¹⁵ Nutrition and Clinical Services Division (NCSD), International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
¹⁶ International Education, RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA.
¹⁷ Department of Pediatrics, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
¹⁸ International Center for Maternal and Newborn Health, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
¹⁹ Education Policy and Program Evaluation, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA, USA.
²⁰ Health Promotion, University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Public Health, Omaha, NE, USA.
²¹ Department of Methodology and Statistics, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands.
²² Social Protection and Health Division, Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, DC, USA.

PMID: 40155994
PMCID: PMC11951581
DOI: 10.1186/s40814-025-01620-w

No abstract available

PubMed Disclaimer

Erratum for

Feasibility and acceptability of implementing the Global Scales for Early Development (GSED) package for children 0-3 years across three countries.
Merchant AN, Kaur R, McCray G, Cavallera V, Weber A, Gladstone M, Janus M, Nisar I, Kariger P, Sazawal S, Dutta A, Ahmed S, Zhang Y, Mercadante MP, Zongo A, Schönbeck Y, Dua T, Eekhout I, Tofail F, Black M, Baqui AH, McCoy D, Begum F, Anago RKE, Brentani A, Jiang F, Detmar S, Maillard MP, Waldman M, van Buuren S, Raikes A, Hepworth K, Codina MR, Akhtar S, Jehan F, Khanam R, Naqvi H, Asif AH, Mehmood J, Afzal S, Lancaster G. Merchant AN, et al. Pilot Feasibility Stud. 2025 Feb 14;11(1):18. doi: 10.1186/s40814-024-01583-4. Pilot Feasibility Stud. 2025. PMID: 39953573 Free PMC article.

References

1. Merchant AN, Kaur R, McCray G, et al. Feasibility and acceptability of implementing the Global Scales for Early Development (GSED) package for children 0–3 years across three countries. Pilot Feasibility Stud. 2025;11:18. 10.1186/s40814-024-01583-4. - PMC - PubMed

Publication types

Actions

Grants and funding

001/WHO_/World Health Organization/International

LinkOut - more resources

Full Text Sources
- BioMed Central
- PubMed Central

Save citation to file

Email citation

Add to Collections

Add to My Bibliography

Your saved search

Create a file for external citation management software

Your RSS Feed

Correction: Feasibility and acceptability of implementing the Global Scales for Early Development (GSED) package for children 0-3 years across three countries

Affiliations

Correction: Feasibility and acceptability of implementing the Global Scales for Early Development (GSED) package for children 0-3 years across three countries

Authors

Affiliations

Erratum for

References

Publication types

Grants and funding

LinkOut - more resources

Full Text Sources