Prevalencia de los retrasos del desarrollo con o sin discapacidad y los factores asociados en niños y niñas de 0 a 5 años de edad que asisten a los centros de desarrollo infantil fiscales regulares periféricos del área urbana del cantón Cuenca, enero-junio 2009

Abstract

With the purpose of determining the prevalence late of the development with or without disability and to describe their associate factors in children and zero girls to five years of age that attend the Centers of Development Infantile Fiscal Regular Peripherals of the urban area of the Canton Cuenca during the period January-June of 2009, was carried out a study of traverse court or of prevalence in a sample of 60 children.

The investigation allowed us to know the frequency of delays of the development in children and girls from 0 to 5 years of age of the Centers of Development Infantile Fiscal Regular Peripherals of the urban area of the Canton Cuenca, establishing the relationship with the following factors of risk: malnutrition, abnormal cephalic perimeter (macro and microcephalic), family type (monoparents, nuclear, extended), the parents' migration and caretaker's type. The test used for the development evaluation is: the test Brunet Lezine for the confirmation of the delay of the psychomotor development and the test of EVE used in children smaller than 3 years and the BVD for children and girls from 3 to 5 years that it allowed to determine under the dependence approaches the disability presence in the study group.

The results of the study demonstrated that of a sample of 60 children and girls of 0 to 5 years of age (universe of 146) that attend the Centers of Development Infantile Fiscal Regular Peripherals of the urban area of the canton evaluated Cuenca from January to June of 2009, 10% they have delay without disability and 90% they are children without delay in their development.AU