Factors Affecting Development of Children at Risk

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Abstract
The study aimed to determine the variables that characterize normal and abnormal or questionable performance of Filipino children (n = 911) with histories of perinatal risk events (e.g. birth weight less than 2,500 grams, age of gestation less than 37 weeks, instrumental delivery) on the Metro-Manila Developmental Screening Test (MMDST), a restandardized Philippine version of the Denver Developmental Screening Test. Children's ages ranged between 2 weeks and 6½ A years (53% male, 47% female). In addition to MMDST performance, data on 34 structural-situational variables were used in discriminant analysis. Thirteen variables with significant discriminant function coefficients formed five clusters: a child-situational variable cluster, health variable cluster, mother variable cluster, socioeconomic variable cluster, and an age variable cluster.