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ReviewPaediatrics & child health2024

Literacy in school-aged children: A paediatric approach to advocacy and assessment.

Anne Kawamura, Angela Orsino, Scott McLeod, Mark Handley-Derry, Linda Siegel, Jocelyn Vine, Nicola Jones-Stokreef

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Review in Paediatrics & child health, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Anne KawamuraCanadian Paediatric Society, Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Committee, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Angela OrsinoCanadian Paediatric Society, Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Committee, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Scott McLeodCanadian Paediatric Society, Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Committee, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Mark Handley-DerryCanadian Paediatric Society, Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Committee, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Linda SiegelCanadian Paediatric Society, Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Committee, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Jocelyn VineCanadian Paediatric Society, Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Committee, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Nicola Jones-StokreefCanadian Paediatric Society, Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Committee, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Literacy is a key social determinant of health that affects the daily socioemotional lives of children and their economic prospects later in life. Being able to read, write, and understand written text is essential to participating in society, achieving goals, developing knowledge, and fulfilling potential. Yet a significant proportion of adults in Canada do not have the literacy skills they need to meet and manage increasingly complex workforce demands. Paediatric care providers play a pivotal role in identifying children and families at risk for low literacy. This statement offers approaches for assessing children and counselling families to improve reading skills while advocating for their right to access evidence-based reading instruction.

Indexed as

Evidence-based reading instructionLiteracyScreening

Identifiers

PMID39990038
PMCPMC11840253

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