Evaluation of the individual targeted promotion in day-care centers in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

Conditions

developmental risks in the areas fine and gross motor, language and cognition as well as the social development of children in day-care centers, developmental risks of school starters (school entry examination) F80 F81 F82 F83 F84 F88 F89

Annemarie Köppen, Marco Franze, Wolfgang Hoffmann

BMC Pediatrics2026-02-24

10.1186/s12887-026-06616-w

Social–Emotional Skills in Five-to-Six-Year-Olds in Social Hotspots in Germany: Individual Trajectories in a Prospective Cohort

J Biermann, Marco Franze, Wolfgang Hoffmann

International Journal of Early Childhood2023-10-135 citations

10.1007/s13158-023-00367-w

Effects of the Targeted Intervention for Five- to Six-Year-Old Children Affected by Attentional and Concentration Developmental Risks: Results of a Dynamic Prospective Cohort Study Conducted in Socially Deprived Regions in Germany

Marco Franze, J Biermann, Anika Kästner, Vanessa Sophie Ernst, Wolfgang Hoffmann

Prevention Science2022-03-306 citations

10.1007/s11121-022-01362-8

Social developmental delays among 3 to 6 year old children in preschools in German social hotspots: results of a dynamic prospective cohort study.

Biermann J, Franze M, Hoffmann W.

2020-05-137 citations

10.1186/s12887-020-02128-3

Interventions

Group 1: All day-care centers involved exceed a certain proportion of parents receiving state welfare benefits to subsidize their contribution payments above average and receive additional financial f

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

3 Years to 6 Years

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: day-care centers with a proportion of parents receiving state welfare benefits to subsidize their contribution payments above average, day-care centers with additional financial support according to the federal state law of children´s day-care and preschools Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, preschoolers aged 3 to 6 years

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: day-care centers without additional financial support according to the federal state law of children´s day-care and preschools Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Primary Outcome is the decrease of the proportion of schoolstarters at risk over time (school entry examination). Instruments: school entry examination: social-paediatric screening of developmental status for school entry (SOPESS)	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
Secondary Outcome ist the decrease of the incidence and prevlance of children at risk in the day-care centers involved instruments: child´s skills: Dortmund Developmental Screening for Preschools (DESK 3-6 R); questionnaire for administration staff of the day-care centers: developed in the project	—

Countries

Germany

Contacts

Public ContactJosefin Biermann

Universitätsmedizin Greifswald, Institut für Community Medicine, Abteilung Versorgungsepidemiologie und Community Health

josefin.biermann@uni-greifswald.de03834 867758

Outcome results

None listed