Prevalencia de dificultades psicomotrices en las áreas finas y gruesas de los niños menores de cuatro años del CNH-MIES de la Parroquia Ricaurte. Cuenca, 2014

Abstract

Background: The children’s integral development is considered a substantive and sustainable acquisition of many functional skills during the processes of: Evolution, sensory, affective-behavioral, sexual, and, social aspects that allow a balanced interaction with the surrounding world. Objective: To determine the prevalence of the psychomotor difficulties related to the fine and gross motor skills in children under four years old, who belong to the “Creciendo con Nuestros Hijos”, a program supported by the” Ministerio de Inclusión Económica y Social” in the parish of Ricaurte, in.Cuenca, 2014. Methodology: An almost-experimental study was conducted on 180 children from the CNH-MIES in the parish of Ricaurte. In such study, the children´s development motor skills were assessed; it has stepped in with a plan of socio-recreational activities and after that a final evaluation was performed in order to compare the results of the pre and post- tests. An interview data, a direct observation and a NELSON ORTIZ´S DEVELOPMENT ABREVIATED SCALE which evaluates whether a child is on alert were used as resources of investigation. Finally, data was entered in Excel and SPSS software programs and then presented in charts, simple and, double tables with its own descriptive analysis. Results: This study established the prevalence of difficulties in the fine and gross motor skills in children less than four years old, who were rate at 47% considered in a level of Alert. After the post-tests, those children reached a rate of 76% in gross motor and 77% in fine motor adaptive motor.