Tamizaje de los problemas del neurodesarrollo en niños menores de 5 años del centro de salud de Paute 2019-2020

Abstract

Background During the first years of life, the evaluation of neurodevelopment is essential, if it detects early warning signs, these can be approached and intervened on time, for this reason, in this investigation, a screening evaluation was carried out on children under the age of 5 years at the “Centro de Salud de Paute”, where a level of development was categorized as: normal, delayed development and risk of delayed development. Objective To determine the neurodevelopmental problems in children under 5 years of age at the “Centro de Salud de Paute”. Methodology This research is prospective, descriptive, and quantitative. The study population was boys and girls under 5 years of age from “Centro de Salud de Paute”. For the established plan, the SPSS program in Spanish will be used to process, analyze and interpret the data obtained. For the statistical analysis of the qualitative variables, frequencies, percentages were used, and for the quantitative variables the measures of central tendency: mean, median, mode. These results will be presented using statistical tables and graphs in the Microsoft Excel 2016 program. Results: The study was carried out with a sample of 52 boys and girls, of which 56% correspond to the male sex and 44% to the female sex, according to the results of the Child Development Evaluation Test "EDI", the 44, 2% have a delay in development or yellow, 40.4% have a normal development or green, and finally 15.4% have a risk of delay in development or red. In biological risk factors, we found a higher frequency in male with a risk of delayed development and delayed development, with a higher prevalence in Hospitalization of the child in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) or before of the first month of life with a duration of more than four days, corresponding to 13.5% with a delay indevelopment and 11.5% in the risk of delay in development.