Home Environment Motor Stimulation for 410 Children in Rio Grande do Sul

410 children aged 18 to 42 months participated in a study analyzing home environment quality for motor development opportunities in central Rio Grande do Sul. The research used the AHEMD-SR instrument and found households with lower parental wages and education provided significantly fewer motor stimulation opportunities. Ellen Santos SOARES authored this study, which concluded a shortage of development-promoting materials in most residences, strongly linked to family socioeconomic status.

Use Cases

• Modeling the relationship between socioeconomic status and home environment quality based on parental wage and education data.
• Analyzing the distribution of motor stimulation materials in home environments based on AHEMD-SR assessment scores.
• Investigating geographic or demographic patterns in motor development opportunities within a specific Brazilian region.

Strengths

• Data from 410 children provides a substantial sample size for analysis.
• Assessment uses the standardized AHEMD-SR instrument for home environment evaluation.
• Findings include statistically significant results (p=0.00) linking socioeconomic factors to outcomes.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and specific data format are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the central region of Rio Grande do Sul.

Provenance

Source

Ellen Santos SOARES

Collection Method

Data collected via the Affordances in the Home Environment for Motor Development Self-Report (AHEMD-SR) instrument, with analysis using descriptive statistics, t-tests, and ANOVA.

Geography

Central region of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil