Telematic Support in Early Intervention on Infants At Risk of Neurodevelopmental Delays

The BSID-III is an assessment tool for diagnosing developmental delays in early childhood from 1 to 42 months. It assesses 5 developmental domains: Cognitive Scale, Language Scale, Motor scale, Social-Emotional Scale and Adaptative Scale. The motor scale has 66 items in the fine motor and 72 items in the gross motor domain which are administrated according to the child development. Change= (2 months development score - baseline Score).

The AIMS is an observational assessment tool that requires minimal handling of an infant by the examiner. It assesses the maturation of infant's motor skills from term (40 weeks gestation) to 18 months. It has 58 observational items divided into four subscales which are prone, supine, sitting and standing. Change= (2 months development score - baseline Score).

The IMP is a video-based assessment for infants aged 3 to 18 months. It assesses the spontaneous motor behaviour in supine, prone, sitting, standing, walking and during reaching and grasping - depending on the age of the infant. Includes 5 domains: the size of the infant's motor repertoire, the infant's ability to make an adaptive selection out of his/her repertoire, performance, symmetry and fluency. Change= (2 months IMP total and subscales scores - baseline scores).

CarerQol measures the impact of providing informal care on caregivers. Consists of seven items questionnaire to evaluate the impact of informal care on satisfaction, support, problems with daily activities, and financial, relational, mental health and physical health problems of caregivers, and a Visual Analogue Scale which measures general well-being in terms of happiness from 0 (completely unhappy) to 10 (completely happy). Change= (2 months scores on each item - baseline Score).

The Paretal Stress Scale is an 18-item self-report measure design to assess the perceived levels of stress resulting from being a parent. Overall possible scores on the scale range from 18 to 90 with higher scores indicating a higher level of stress. There are no average scores or "cut-off's" for this tool. Change= (2 months stress score - baseline score).

The Client Satisfaction Questionnaire is an 8-item measure of client or consumer satisfaction with health and human services including governmental and public benefit programs and services. Overall possible scores on the scale range from 8 to 32 with higher scores indicating a higher level of satisfaction with the given service. There are no average scores or "cut-off's" for this tool.

PSOC is a self-report measure that uses 17 questions to measure how capable a caregiver feels as a parent and how satisfied they are with being a parent. Possible scores range from 17 to 102 with higher scores indicating a higher parenting sense of competency. There are no average scores or "cut-off's" for this tool. Change= (2 months sense of competence score - baseline score).