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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Findings from the Kids in Communities Study (KiCS): a mixed methods study examining community-level influences on early childhood development |
Author: | Goldfeld, S. Villanueva, K. Tanton, R. Katz, I. Brinkman, S. Giles-Corti, B. Woolcock, G. |
Citation: | PLoS One, 2021; 16(9):e0256431-1-e0256431-21 |
Publisher: | Plos One |
Issue Date: | 2021 |
ISSN: | 1932-6203 1932-6203 |
Editor: | Shah, T.I. |
Statement of Responsibility: | Sharon Goldfeld, Karen Villanueva, Robert Tanton, Ilan Katz, Sally Brinkman, Billie Giles-Corti,Geoffrey Woolcock |
Abstract: | There is increasing international interest in place-based approaches to improve early childhood development (ECD) outcomes. The available data and evidence are limited and precludes well informed policy and practice change. Developing the evidence-base for community-level effects on ECD is one way to facilitate more informed and targeted community action. This paper presents overall final findings from the Kids in Communities Study (KiCS), an Australian mixed methods investigation into community-level effects on ECD in five domains of influence-physical, social, governance, service, and sociodemographic. Twenty five local communities (suburbs) across Australia were selected based on 'diagonality type' i.e. whether they performed better (off-diagonal positive), worse (off-diagonal negative), or 'as expected' (on-diagonal) on the Australian Early Development Census (AEDC) relative to their socioeconomic profile. The approach was designed to determine replicable and modifiable factors that were separate to socioeconomic status. Between 2015-2017, stakeholder interviews (n = 146), parent and service provider focus groups (n = 51), and existing socio-economic and early childhood education and care administrative data were collected. Qualitative and quantitative data analyses were undertaken to understand differences between 14 paired disadvantaged local communities (i.e. on versus off-diagonal). Further analysis of qualitative data elicited important factors for all 25 local communities. From this, we developed a draft set of 'Foundational Community Factors' (FCFs); these are the factors that lay the foundations of a good community for young children. |
Keywords: | Humans Focus Groups Child Development Parents Qualitative Research Social Class Child Child, Preschool Infant Infant, Newborn Vulnerable Populations Australia Female Male Policy Community Participation Stakeholder Participation |
Rights: | © 2021 Goldfeld et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0256431 |
Grant ID: | http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/LP130100411 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1082922 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1160185 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/1107672 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0256431 |
Appears in Collections: | Public Health publications |
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