Desarrollo psicomotor en niños con desnutrición de los hospitales Vicente Corral Moscoso y Homero Castanier Crespo, Cuenca-Azogues. Mayo-octubre 2017

Abstract

BACKGROUND Children development follows a pattern which reflects an appropriate progress or a "deflection" which can be caused by several factors. Such is the case of malnutrition a problem that occurs frequently in childhood, this disease can lead problems of learning, attention, memory and school performance; because the body does not have enough energy requirements to accomplish necessary processes in children’s growth and development. GENERAL OBJECTIVE To determine the psychomotor development quotient in children from the age of 4 months to 5 years, with malnutrition in Vicente Corral Moscoso and Homero Castanier Crespo Hospitals. METHODOLOGY A Descriptive cross-sectional study, through direct evaluation to children from 4 months to 5 years old, with malnutrition at Hospitals Vicente Corral Moscoso and Homero Castanier, by the Brunet Lezine Test. Results have been analyzed with central tendency measures, percentages and frequency. We used IBM SPSS Statistics 22 free version. RESULTS This study showed that children from 4 months to 5 years old, who had a diagnosis of chronic malnutrition presented a psychomotor development within the mean that corresponds to 42.5% of all the children evaluated; while 17.5% had a retardation in their psychomotor development. The 18.8% of children with malnutrition of moderate degree had a psychomotor development within the average and the 1.3% had a developmental delay As well the 17.5% of children with malnutrition of mild degree had a psychomotor development within the mean and the 2.5% had a psychomotor development retardation. Keywords