Adversidades psicossociais na primeira infância e desenvolvimento infantil de crianças atendidas em uma ONG em Fortaleza, CE

• Ano de defesa: 2014
• Autor(a) principal: Moura, Alessandra Ferrer Di
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Palavras-chave em Português: Desenvolvimento Infantil; Relações Mãe-Filho
• Link de acesso: http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/13589

The stressful situations, also understood as psychosocial adversity, they are across the life cycle, but it is in childhood that they can give rise to the greatest biological impacts, emotional and social adulthood. Child development may be likely to change when there are these adversities, especially experienced in the family environment. So, study the association between adversity and child development can offer us an overview of this influence and facilitate direct actions and programs to the events of life stressors that can lead to deficits in child development, in order to minimize them or terminate them. The aim of the study was to evaluate the psychosocial adversities experienced by mothers and children attending a non-governmental organization (NGO) Reference in early childhood and its relation to child development. It is a cross-sectional study, conducted in an NGO in Fortaleza, CE, specializing in early childhood. Data collection was conducted in July 2014 with 170 children up to 36 months old and their mothers. It evaluated the motor development, visual, auditory and language of children by Development Scale Cognitive CAT / CLAMS and interviewed mothers about potential factors experienced adversity. Data were stored and analyzed using the EpiInfo software version 3.5.2, and submitted to descriptive and univariate analysis. The findings of this study indicate that the age group 25-36 months of age was the most prevalent for changes in the overall development, visuomotor and linguistic-hearing (23.3%, 31.6% and 28.3% respectively ) and may suggest a toxic stress situation as a result of experienced psychosocial adversity. Regarding the psychosocial adversity which the child was submitted, all children showed at least one adversity, most featuring two to four events (79.4%). Intervention programs in early childhood, like that which studied the customer is located, are efficient to improve and intervene in the family environment, reducing the load effects of experienced adversity, making the toxic stress into positive stress, healthy learning.