RESEARCH IN TÜRKİYE BY FAMILY-CENTERED DEVELOPMENTAL ASSESSMENT METHOD: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW

Studies Conducted with Family-Centered Developmental Assessment Method in Turkey: A Systematic Review

Abstract

The assessment, which is carried out in the most appropriate way for the child's situation, will also facilitate the early detection of possible problems and developmental delays. At this point, in addition to the standard developmental tests, the family-centered developmental assessment method, in which the family is in the center, will provide a healthier assessment of the current situation of children, and will also facilitate families in how they can support their children.

In this study, in order to systematically review the studies conducted in Turkey with the family-centered developmental assessment method, without any date limitation - "family-centered"; "developmental assessment"-, -"family-centered assessment"-, -"parental views"; Using the keywords "developmental assessment"-, studies in the Google Scholar database were examined.

The inclusion criteria of the study; Studies in which family views are taken into account in order to examine one or more of the cognitive, language, motor, social-emotional and self-care development areas of children aged 0-6; Exclusion criteria were that the studies were only related to children older than 6 years of age, were a review or a case report, or were related to different skills outside the specified developmental areas.

After the search carried out with the determined keywords, a total of 39 studies were reached; When duplicate studies were excluded and inclusion and exclusion criteria were taken into account, the remaining 5 studies were included in the review.

In the studies examined as a result of the research; Survey and cross-sectional models were mostly used as research methods, the sample groups included in the studies consisted of at least 40 and a maximum of 1099 children, cognitive and motor development areas were evaluated in all studies, and Bayley Developmental Assessment Scale for Infants was mostly used as a measurement tool. According to the results, it was seen that education in the early period is an important factor in the development of children with special needs, premature babies or refugee children are in the developmentally risky group, and their developmental areas are affected by gender, education, number of siblings, and education status of parents.