The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) assessed their cohort members (CMs) at 18 months’ age (Children in Focus Clinic) using the Griffiths Scales of Mental Development (GSMD) Performance Scale.
Details on this measure and the data collected from the CMs are outlined in the table below.
| Domain: | Non-verbal ability | |
| Measures: | Length estimation | |
| CHC: | Gv (Visual processing) | |
| Gp (Psychomotor abilities) | ||
| Administration method: | Trained interviewer; clinical setting; guided play session | |
| Procedure: | During a guided play session, the researcher presented the child with a series of boards and objects (insets) that could fit into shapes that were cut out of the boards. The researcher demonstrated how the insets fitted into the board, and the child was given the opportunity to copy. This was done with increased difficulty (increased number of holes and shapes in boards). | |
| Link to questionnaire: | http://www.bristol.ac.uk/alspac/researchers/our-data/clinical-measures/ (opens in new tab) | |
| Scoring: | Standardised DQ (0 - 100) | |
| Item-level variable(s): | Not readily available | |
| Total score/derived variable(s): | cf776, cf782 | |
| Descriptives: | Unadjusted score | Age adjusted score |
| N = 1,174 | N = 1,142 | |
| Range = 0 - 35 | Range = 64.38 - 135.45 | |
| Mean = 21.14 | Mean = 113.83 | |
| SD = 3.10 | SD = 12.68 | |
(click image to enlarge) | (click image to enlarge) |
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| Age of participants: | Mean = 79.90 weeks, SD = 1.47, Range = 76 - 87 | |
| Other sweep and/or cohort: | None | |
| Source: | Griffiths, R. (1970). The abilities of young children. London: Child Development Research Centre. | |
| Technical resources: | Griffiths, R. (1970). The abilities of young children. London: Child Development Research Centre. | |
| Reference examples: | Little, R. E., Northstone, K., Golding, J., & ALSPAC Study Team. (2002). Alcohol, breastfeeding, and development at 18 months. Pediatrics, 109(5), e72-e72. | |
| Hibbeln, J. R., Davis, J. M., Steer, C., Emmett, P., Rogers, I., Williams, C., & Golding, J. (2007). Maternal seafood consumption in pregnancy and neurodevelopmental outcomes in childhood (ALSPAC study): an observational cohort study. The Lancet, 369(9561), 578-585. | ||
For the named items in the table above, links are provided (where applicable) to their corresponding content on CLOSER Discovery.
Go to:
- Overview of all cognitive measures in ALSPAC
- Overview of childhood cognitive measures across all studies
This page is part of CLOSER’s ‘A guide to the cognitive measures in five British birth cohort studies’.