Evaluación de las habilidades funcionales en niños y niñas del Centro de Desarrollo Infantil de la Universidad de Cuenca, 2021

Abstract

BACKGROUND Child development is a set of conditions that influence the acquisition of skills and behaviours that allow relating and interacting with the environment, hence the importance of determining the degree of dependence on functional skills. Reason why, in this research, the PEDI-CAT Inventory was used to evaluate the children of CEDIUC, in order to detect deficiencies in their development. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the functional skills in children of the Child Development Center of the University of Cuenca. METHODOLOGY The study was a prospective quantitative descriptive research project, carried out at the Child Development Center of the University of Cuenca, the “PEDI-CAT” inventory was applied to a sample of 50 children. For data analysis and tabulation, the IBM SPSS program, version 23.0, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Office 2019 were used. RESULTS In the present study, formed by a sample of 50 children from CEDIUC, where the age range of 4 to 6 years old belongs to the highest percentage with 44%. In reference to the functional domains, the following results were obtained: in the area of daily activities, 36% of the population presented high alertness; in the area of mobility, 32% did not present dependence; in the area of social/cognitive, 42% presented high alertness; in the area of responsibility, 56% of the population did not present dependence; in the area of mobility, 32% did not present dependence; in the area of social/cognitive, 42% presented high alertness; and in the area of responsibility, 56% of the population did not present dependence.