Quality of care and suspected developmental delay among children aged 1–59 months: a cross-sectional study in 8 counties of rural China

Table 2 The status of quality of care and comparison of different status of quality of care by gender

	N ^a	n (%)	Male n (%)	Female n (%)	P
Five items
Availability of children’s books	1927	710 (36.8)	377 (36.3)	333 (37.5)	0.606
Availability of playthings	1927	1759 (91.3)	950 (91.5)	809 (91.0)	0.686
Support for learning	596	495 (83.1)	274 (81.3)	221 (85.3)	0.194
Father’s support for learning	596	98 (16.4)	57 (16.9)	41 (15.8)	0.723
Inadequate care	1916	93 (4.9)	44 (4.3)	49 (5.5)	0.201
Overall assessment
Poor quality of care	1916	176 (9.2)	96 (9.3)	80 (9.0)	0.943
Medium quality of care	1916	1111 (58.0)	599 (58.2)	512 (57.8)
Good quality of care	1916	629 (32.8)	335 (32.5)	294 (33.2)

^ain accordance to MICS5 definitions, “availability of children’s books”, “availability of playthings” and “inadequate care” are applicable for children aged 1–59 months (N = 1927). “Support for learning” and “father’s support for learning” are applicable for children aged 36–59 months (N = 596). 11 caregivers had forgot the details about inadequate care (N = 1916)

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