Offord Centre for Child Studies, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4L8, Canada.
Human Early Learning Partnership, School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3, Canada.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Mar 25;18(7):3397. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18073397.
The Early Development Instrument (EDI) was developed as a population-level assessment of children's developmental health at school entry. EDI data collection has created unprecedented opportunities for population-level studies on children's developmental outcomes. The goal of this narrative review was to synthesize research using the EDI to describe how it contributes to expanding the understanding of the impacts of social determinants on child development and how it applies to special populations.
Select studies published in peer-reviewed scientific journals between 2015 and 2020 and incorporating the social determinants of health perspectives were chosen to highlight the capability of the EDI to monitor children's developmental health and contribute knowledge in the area of early childhood development.
A number of studies have examined the association between several social determinants of health and children's developmental outcomes, including hard-to-reach and low-frequency populations of children. The EDI has also been used to evaluate programs and interventions in different countries.
The ability of the EDI to monitor children's developmental outcomes in various populations has been consistently demonstrated. The EDI, by virtue of its comprehensive breadth and census-like collection, widens the scope of research relating to early childhood development and its social determinants of health.
早期发展评估工具（EDI）是一种在儿童入学时对其发展健康状况进行人群水平评估的工具。EDI 的数据收集为开展有关儿童发展结果的人群水平研究创造了前所未有的机会。本叙述性综述的目的是综合利用 EDI 的研究来描述它如何有助于扩大对社会决定因素对儿童发展影响的理解，以及它如何适用于特殊人群。
选择了 2015 年至 2020 年间发表在同行评议科学期刊上的、纳入健康社会决定因素视角的精选研究，以突出 EDI 监测儿童发展健康的能力，并为儿童早期发展领域的知识做出贡献。
许多研究已经检验了健康的多个社会决定因素与儿童发展结果之间的关联，包括难以接触到的和儿童数量较少的群体。EDI 还被用于评估不同国家的项目和干预措施。
EDI 能够持续监测不同人群中儿童的发展结果。EDI 通过其全面的广度和普查式的收集，扩大了与儿童早期发展及其健康社会决定因素相关的研究范围。
