Cargando…

Patterns of early primary school-based literacy interventions among Pacific children from a nationwide health screening programme of 4 year olds

Literacy success is critical to unlocking a child’s potential and enhancing their future wellbeing. Thus, the early identification and redressing of literacy needs is vital. Pacific children have, on average, the lowest literacy achievement levels in New Zealand. However, this population is very div...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Schluter, Philip J., Kokaua, Jesse, Tautolo, El-Shadan, Richards, Rosalina, Taleni, Tufulasi, Kim, Hyun M., Audas, Richard, McNeill, Brigid, Taylor, Barry, Gillon, Gail
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2018
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6098071/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30120260
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-29939-w
_version_ 1783348398167949312
author Schluter, Philip J.
Kokaua, Jesse
Tautolo, El-Shadan
Richards, Rosalina
Taleni, Tufulasi
Kim, Hyun M.
Audas, Richard
McNeill, Brigid
Taylor, Barry
Gillon, Gail
author_facet Schluter, Philip J.
Kokaua, Jesse
Tautolo, El-Shadan
Richards, Rosalina
Taleni, Tufulasi
Kim, Hyun M.
Audas, Richard
McNeill, Brigid
Taylor, Barry
Gillon, Gail
author_sort Schluter, Philip J.
collection PubMed
description Literacy success is critical to unlocking a child’s potential and enhancing their future wellbeing. Thus, the early identification and redressing of literacy needs is vital. Pacific children have, on average, the lowest literacy achievement levels in New Zealand. However, this population is very diverse. This study sought to determine whether the current national health screening programme of pre-school children could be used as an early detection tool of Pacific children with the greatest literacy needs. Time-to-event analyses of literacy intervention data for Pacific children born in years 2005–2011 were employed. A multivariable Cox proportional hazard model was fitted, and predictive assessment made using training and test datasets. Overall, 59,760 Pacific children were included, with 6,861 (11.5%) receiving at least one literacy intervention. Tongan (hazard ratio [HR]: 1.33; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.23, 1.45) and Cook Island Māori (HR: 1.33; 95% CI: 1.21, 1.47) children were more likely to receive an intervention than Samoan children; whereas those children with both Pacific and non-Pacific ethnic identifications were less likely. However, the multivariable model lacked reasonable predictive power (Harrell’s c-statistic: 0.592; 95% CI: 0.583, 0.602). Regardless, important Pacific sub-populations emerged who would benefit from targeted literacy intervention or policy implementation.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-6098071
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2018
publisher Nature Publishing Group UK
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-60980712018-08-23 Patterns of early primary school-based literacy interventions among Pacific children from a nationwide health screening programme of 4 year olds Schluter, Philip J. Kokaua, Jesse Tautolo, El-Shadan Richards, Rosalina Taleni, Tufulasi Kim, Hyun M. Audas, Richard McNeill, Brigid Taylor, Barry Gillon, Gail Sci Rep Article Literacy success is critical to unlocking a child’s potential and enhancing their future wellbeing. Thus, the early identification and redressing of literacy needs is vital. Pacific children have, on average, the lowest literacy achievement levels in New Zealand. However, this population is very diverse. This study sought to determine whether the current national health screening programme of pre-school children could be used as an early detection tool of Pacific children with the greatest literacy needs. Time-to-event analyses of literacy intervention data for Pacific children born in years 2005–2011 were employed. A multivariable Cox proportional hazard model was fitted, and predictive assessment made using training and test datasets. Overall, 59,760 Pacific children were included, with 6,861 (11.5%) receiving at least one literacy intervention. Tongan (hazard ratio [HR]: 1.33; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.23, 1.45) and Cook Island Māori (HR: 1.33; 95% CI: 1.21, 1.47) children were more likely to receive an intervention than Samoan children; whereas those children with both Pacific and non-Pacific ethnic identifications were less likely. However, the multivariable model lacked reasonable predictive power (Harrell’s c-statistic: 0.592; 95% CI: 0.583, 0.602). Regardless, important Pacific sub-populations emerged who would benefit from targeted literacy intervention or policy implementation. Nature Publishing Group UK 2018-08-17 /pmc/articles/PMC6098071/ /pubmed/30120260 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-29939-w Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
spellingShingle Article
Schluter, Philip J.
Kokaua, Jesse
Tautolo, El-Shadan
Richards, Rosalina
Taleni, Tufulasi
Kim, Hyun M.
Audas, Richard
McNeill, Brigid
Taylor, Barry
Gillon, Gail
Patterns of early primary school-based literacy interventions among Pacific children from a nationwide health screening programme of 4 year olds
title Patterns of early primary school-based literacy interventions among Pacific children from a nationwide health screening programme of 4 year olds
title_full Patterns of early primary school-based literacy interventions among Pacific children from a nationwide health screening programme of 4 year olds
title_fullStr Patterns of early primary school-based literacy interventions among Pacific children from a nationwide health screening programme of 4 year olds
title_full_unstemmed Patterns of early primary school-based literacy interventions among Pacific children from a nationwide health screening programme of 4 year olds
title_short Patterns of early primary school-based literacy interventions among Pacific children from a nationwide health screening programme of 4 year olds
title_sort patterns of early primary school-based literacy interventions among pacific children from a nationwide health screening programme of 4 year olds
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6098071/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30120260
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-29939-w
work_keys_str_mv AT schluterphilipj patternsofearlyprimaryschoolbasedliteracyinterventionsamongpacificchildrenfromanationwidehealthscreeningprogrammeof4yearolds
AT kokauajesse patternsofearlyprimaryschoolbasedliteracyinterventionsamongpacificchildrenfromanationwidehealthscreeningprogrammeof4yearolds
AT tautoloelshadan patternsofearlyprimaryschoolbasedliteracyinterventionsamongpacificchildrenfromanationwidehealthscreeningprogrammeof4yearolds
AT richardsrosalina patternsofearlyprimaryschoolbasedliteracyinterventionsamongpacificchildrenfromanationwidehealthscreeningprogrammeof4yearolds
AT talenitufulasi patternsofearlyprimaryschoolbasedliteracyinterventionsamongpacificchildrenfromanationwidehealthscreeningprogrammeof4yearolds
AT kimhyunm patternsofearlyprimaryschoolbasedliteracyinterventionsamongpacificchildrenfromanationwidehealthscreeningprogrammeof4yearolds
AT audasrichard patternsofearlyprimaryschoolbasedliteracyinterventionsamongpacificchildrenfromanationwidehealthscreeningprogrammeof4yearolds
AT mcneillbrigid patternsofearlyprimaryschoolbasedliteracyinterventionsamongpacificchildrenfromanationwidehealthscreeningprogrammeof4yearolds
AT taylorbarry patternsofearlyprimaryschoolbasedliteracyinterventionsamongpacificchildrenfromanationwidehealthscreeningprogrammeof4yearolds
AT gillongail patternsofearlyprimaryschoolbasedliteracyinterventionsamongpacificchildrenfromanationwidehealthscreeningprogrammeof4yearolds