Measurement of Child Development (Children from Birth to Six Years of Age) in Bolivia. Test Results

摘要

This paper presents the results of a test applied to measure the levels of development of Bolivian children between 0 to 6 years of age. The test has been built specifically to be applied in Bolivia, and has undergone a process of adaptation to the cultural, social, family and linguistic context of the country. The test consists of two parts: during the first part, anthropometric and nutritional data are collected; in the second, data on child development in cognitive, psychomotor, language and social areas are collected. The application of the test was carried out in Bolivia, in the departments of Chuquisaca and Potosi and the city of El Alto (La Paz), by a qualified, and previously trained to adapt to the environment, staff. The sample, to which the instrument was applied, was 300 children, aged between birth and age six. The data obtained provides a basis for setting a validated instrument for measuring child development in Bolivia, which allows comparing the results with the international standards of de development and with the test most frequently used.