Neuropsychomotor development assessment of children aged 0 to 5 in early childhood public education centers

ABSTRACT

Purpose:

to investigate the neuropsychomotor development, as well as nutritional and cognitive/emotional aspects of children aged 0 to 5, attending early childhood education centers, aiming at early identification and prevention of risks and delays in children’s development.

Methods:

the population studied was composed of 85 children attending two early childhood education centers. The children’s development approach was contextual, by means of ludic physical therapy assessment, by using the DENVER II scale; complementary assessments of their nutritional status were also performed, based on anthropometric measurements of weight and height, as well as evaluations of the cognitive/emotional development aspects through the Free Hand Drawing and Human Figure Drawing Tests.

Results:

neuropsychomotor development was found to be within normal range in 69.41% of the children and questionable in 30.58% of them. The significant variable affecting the result was found to be the class in which some children were inserted. In the scale utilized, the best performance was considered to be the gross motor skills (7.69%) and the most questionable performance occurred in the language skills (58.85%). As for nutritional data, it was discovered that 27.06% of the children had some nutritional risk, 22.35% had obesity risk and 4.71%, malnutrition risk. In the cognitive/emotional analysis, the result was that 34.37% of the children presented signs of difficulties related to adaptation and socialization or self-esteem.

Conclusion:

in the present study, about one-third of the children participating presented questionable neuropsychomotor development, especially in the field of language; in this regard, the class to which the children belong may constitute a barrier to their development. These children presented nutritional risks, with a tendency towards obesity, as well as the possible difficulties regarding adaptation and socialization or self-esteem.

Keywords:
Child Health Services; Early Childhood Education; Child Development; Primary Prevention

RESUMO

Objetivo:

investigar o desenvolvimento neuropsicomotor, bem como aspectos nutricionais e cognitivos/emocionais de crianças de 0 a 5 anos de centros de educação infantil, visando a prevenção e identificação precoce de riscos e atrasos no desenvolvimento infantil.

Métodos:

a população estudada foi composta por 85 crianças frequentadoras de dois centros de educação infantil. A abordagem do desenvolvimento infantil foi contextual, por meio da avaliação fisioterapêutica lúdica com escala DENVER II; também foram realizadas avaliações complementares do estado nutricional a partir das medidas antropométricas de peso e altura, e dos aspectos do desenvolvimento cognitivo/emocional a partir do Desenho Livre e Desenho da Figura Humana.

Resultados:

o desenvolvimento neuropsicomotor encontrou-se dentro dos parâmetros de normalidade em 69,41% e questionável em 30,58% das crianças. Constatou-se que a variável significante sobre o resultado foi a turma em que algumas crianças se encontravam. Na escala utilizada, a área de melhor desempenho foi a motora-grosseira (7,69%) e a mais questionável foi da linguagem (58,85%). Quanto aos dados nutricionais foi acurado que 27,06% das crianças apresentaram algum risco nutricional, sendo que 22,35% tiveram risco à obesidade e 4,71% risco à desnutrição. Na análise cognitiva/emocional o resultado apontou que 34,37% das crianças avaliadas apresentaram indicações de dificuldades em relação à adaptação e socialização ou auto-estima.

Conclusões:

na presente pesquisa, cerca de um terço das crianças participantes apresentaram desenvolvimento neuropsicomotor questionável, especialmente na área da linguagem, sendo que a turma em que a criança está inserida pode configurar uma barreira ao desenvolvimento. Essas crianças apresentaram riscos nutricionais, com tendência à obesidade, bem como indicações de dificuldades em relação à adaptação e socialização ou auto-estima.

Descritores:
Serviços de Saúde da Criança; Educação Infantil; Desenvolvimento Infantil; Prevenção Primária

Introduction

Motor development is considered to be a sequential, continuous and chronological-age-related process, through which humans acquire a great amount of motor skills, which progress from simple and disorganized movements to highly complex and organized motor skills¹.

Therefore, human development must be understood from a broad and contextualized perspective, taking into account the dynamic interaction of people with their different contxts^2,3.

The first years of the human life are essential for acquiring knowledge and skills, thus causing remarkable changes in cognitive, motor, social and affective dimensions⁴. Nowadays, due to socioeconomic transformations in society⁵, early childhood education institutions are the place where children spend most of their day in a stage fundamental for their growth and development, especially from zero to five years old. For this reason, observing child development in this stage may furnish indicators of motor development steps and their associations in order to promote health and prevent from risks and delays in neuropsychomotor development.

In the Brazilian National Education Bases and Guidelines Law (LDBEN, law number 9.394/96)⁶, day care centers are defined as institutions who take care of children aged zero to three and preschoolers aged four to six. These two age groups make up the early childhood education, which is the first stage of basic education and whose purpose is the wholesome development of the child. However, Brazilian law number 11.274/2006⁷ made the combination of elementary school and middle school to last nine years, thus including six-year-old children. Therefore, children who turn six until the beginning of the school year are no longer part of the early childhood education.

It is known that, in addition to the children’s biological development and the tasks given them, conditions pertaining to the environment where they grow influence aspects of their motor behavior. An environment that encourages exploration and interaction with their surroundings acts as a development facilitator. On the other hand, an environment in unfavorable conditions may slow down the pace of development and restrict the child’s learning possibilities⁸.

Thus, scholars Amaral, Tabaquim and Lamônica⁹ and Barros et al.¹⁰ state that early identification of a child at risk makes possible to avoid loss in their development and minimize the damage caused by a less favorable environment for the child’s development. Hence, according to Souza et al.¹¹, it’s fitting to follow the children’s development in early childhood education institutions, as it enables such development’s trajectory to be analyzed. In this way, children at greater risk of delay may be identified and strategies for intervention and promotion of development may be established.

Formiga, Silva and Linhares’ study¹² reinforce the need of the multidisciplinary team for the all-encompassing care of children and their families, especially those whose development are perceived as being at risk.

In the municipality of Matinhos (State of Paraná, Brazil), the situation of general health and education is improving and, in order to be in agreement with the concept of wholesomeness in health, it is essential to know in what condition the development of their children is, since their first years. Thereupon, this study aims at investigating the development of children aged 0 to 5 who attended two early childhood education centers in the city of Matinhos, Paraná, Brazil, aimed at the early prevention and identification of risks and delays in child development.

Methods

This study is an exploratory, prospective, qualitative, clinical field research¹³ of a group of children attending early childhood education centers in the city of Matinhos, Paraná (PR), Brazil; henceforth, for brevity, these centers will be denominated ECEC1 and ECEC2. This project had the partnership of the Health Department and the Education Department of the Municipality of Matinhos, PR, since it involved its public early childhood education centers and, in the cases identified as at risk, these children were referred to the Health Department by the municipality’s physical therapist in order to proceed with adequate investigation. The ludic activities¹⁴ used with DENVER II scale were contextualized as tasks in these children’s school routine, with the assistance of their classroom teacher, under direct supervision of the municipality’s physical therapist and with guidance from the University’s professors who were involved in this project. This study was approved by the Ethics in Research Committee of the Federal University of Paraná - Science and Health Department, under Protocol number 1212.0.000.091-8.

As in all researches carried out with humans, the human beings research Resolution 466/12 of the Brazilian National Health Council (CNS - Brazil) has been respected, minimizing risks for participating children. The subjects’ identity, as well as information about them, has been kept in secrecy. The adults responsible for the children, after due explanation about the research, filled in and signed the Informed Consent Form (ICF); these adults were free to refuse or quit participation in the study at any moment of the research, without any sort of penalty.

The selection of participants had the following inclusion criteria: children aged 0 to 5, enrolled in one of the chosen early childhood education centers. The exclusion criteria were: children diagnosed with a disability; lack of an ICF filled in by the adult responsible for the child; absence of the child on the days when assessment took place; health factors that kept the child from participating; and, the choice of the child to either participate or not in the activities.

Firstly, the pilot study was carried out, with the intention of training the researchers in the necessary abilities. The pilot study took place in a third ECEC lest it interfere with the research data. This part of the project also had the consent of either the children’s parents or the ones responsible for them, who signed the ICF. The procedure involved a time of getting acquainted with the children. Then the DENVER II¹⁵ motor scale was used, followed by the complementary cognitive/emotional and nutritional assessment of one child of each age, which was the conclusion of the pilot study.

Such procedure was revised and then used at ECEC 1 and 2, where this research took place. The methodology was based on a contextual approach of the human motor development employing ludic assessment of pediatric neurological physiotherapy.

At ECEC 1 and 2, once authorized by the respective school principals, a meeting was held with the parents and/or the ones responsible for the children who studied there in order to explain the project and answer any questions. The parents were invited to fill in the ICF as well as an informative questionnaire with questions about their children to characterize them. From this moment on, the researchers began applying the project. As it had been done in the pilot study, they got acquainted with the children, the centers and its staff. Afterwards, one of the researchers worked with the motor scale, another, with the cognitive/emotional one, and the third one, with the nutritional assessment, thus, obtaining more reliable data; 85 children were evaluated in all. In the end of the evaluation, after the data had been analyzed, interventions were made with the families and with the school, as an expression of the researchers’ gratitude. In that opportunity, a feedback of the findings was offered, along with necessary guidance. These interventions included inputs related to health and to the importance of stimulating areas deemed as questionable. Details concerning each child’s assessments weren’t alluded to, for in the cases in which the child was considered to be at risk, the municipality’s physiotherapist was asked to talk with their parents and provide suitable referrals.

DENVER II Test¹⁵, a child development screening tool, was used for assessing the neuropsychomotor condition of the children, allowing the health professional to obtain parameters to judge in what stage of development the children were in at the moment they were tested. This test is for use with children aged o to 6. Their development is assessed through 125 items, grouped in four development areas, namely: Personal - Social (aspects of the child’s socialization in and outside their home); Fine Motor - Adaptive (eye/hand coordination, handling of small objects); Language (utterance, ability to recognize, understand and use language); and Gross Motor (bodily motor control, as sitting and walking). The child’s response is registered as: “pass”, when they successfully performed the item; “fail”, when they weren’t successful in performing it; “no opportunity”, when the child didn’t have the chance to perform it; and “refusal”, when they refuse to perform the item. Following that, the child is classified as having either typical or questionable motor development: “typical” when there is no delay of any kind and one item of risk at the most; and “questionable” when there are two or more items of risk and/or one or more items of delay. “Delay” means the child does not perform (or refuses to) an activity that’s already performed by more than 90% of those their age; and “risk” means the child does not perform (or refuses to) two activities that’s already performed by 75 to 90% of the children their age¹⁵.

The nutritional evaluation was carried out by means of anthropometric measurements (weight and height), complying with the techniques recommended by the World Health Organization and used by the Brazilian Ministry of Health¹⁶, and was supervised by a nutritionist. The Free Hand Drawing and Human Figure Drawing Tests¹⁷ were applied to the children aged 3 to 5, accompanied and supervised by a psychologist, in order to evaluate the progressive aspects of their cognitive/emotional development

Statistica 7.0 and Epi Info (Version 6.0)¹⁸ were the software used for the statistical analysis. The generalized linear model test with logit connection function and binomial distribution was performed. The level of significance of 0.05 was adopted for the statistical tests.

Results

A total of 85 children aged 0 to 5 took part in this research; of these, 34 were from 0 to 2 years old and 51 were from 2 to 5 years old. All of them were enrolled in the municipality’s education system in the city of Matinhos, Paraná, Brazil, and attended ECEC 1 or 2.

In this sampling, neuropsychomotor development was found to be within normal parameters in 69.41% (n = 59) of the evaluated children, and questionable in 30.59% (n = 26) of them (Figure 1). Of these, 13 (50%) presented alteration in only one area of development, 11 (42.31%) in two areas, 2 (7.69%) in three, and none of the children presented alteration in all of the areas (Figure 2).

Figure 1:
Percentage of children with typical and questionable development

Figure 2:
Percentage of children with questionable development in one, two or three areas

It was verified that the variable “class” was significant (p<0.05) for the result, i.e., a specific class presented association with questionable neuropsychomotor development. Therefore, the children of that class were more likely to have the risk of delay in their development. Through the analysis of the sample deemed questionable, considering both the “risk” and the “delay” conditions, the area of language was verified to be the most questionable one (53.85%), followed by fine motor - adaptive, with 21.54%, then the personal - social (16.92%), and, the least affected, the gross motor, with 7.69% (Figure 3).

Figure 3:
Percentage of risk and delay in each area

In the nutritional evaluation, the result pointed to 27.06% of the children having some degree of nutritional risk - 22.35% at risk of obesity and 4.71% at risk of malnutrition. Considering the children who presented nutritional risk, 34.78% also had questionable neuropsychomotor development.

In the cognitive/emotional analysis, it was verified that 34.37% of the observed children presented characteristics that may indicate difficulty related to cognitive/emotional development, which may be associated to the adaptation and socialization or self-esteem. Of these children considered to be at risk, 74.8% were assessed as having a questionable neuropsychomotor development by the DENVER II scale.

Discussion

In the neuropsychomotor development analysis, performed by means of the DENVER II Test, a significant portion of the sample (30.59%) presented questionable results. Among the evaluated aspects, language was the most affected area in this study. Brazilian studies, also carried out in early childhood education institutions, had similar results, both in the percentage of children whose development was at risk, and in the most affected area^19,20.

Rezende, Costa and Pontes¹⁹ evaluated the development of 66 children in 4 public early childhood education institutions in the city of São Paulo. Through the DENVER II Test, the authors verified that 22.7% of the children presented results considered as questionable and that the area of language was the most affected of the four evaluated by the test, which was also perceived in this study.

This study agreed with the one by Biscegli et al²⁰, which assessed 113 children attending a day care center in the city of Catanduva, state of São Paulo. In the neuropsychomotor development assessment through DENVER II Test, it was verified that 37% of the sampled children were suspected to be delayed in their development, and that language was the most affected area.

The research made by Costa, Cavalcante and Dell’Aglio²¹ verified that the suspicion of delay in language is related to the children’s father’s little schooling, their mother’s younger age, and their lower income situation. These contextual factors have an impact on their neuropsychomotor development, and are particularly unfavorable for the linguistic development, since they may deprive them of opportunities in a stage essential to their development. In spite of these factors not being considered in this study, it’s known that deficient socioeconomic conditions, parents’ little schooling and teen pregnancy make part of the local reality.

Researchers²² evaluated 197 children residing in the municipality of Canoas, state of Rio Grande do Sul, 27% of whom, also assessed through DENVER II Test, were found to be under the suspicion of delay in neuropsychomotor development. However, the authors did not report which area was most affected. It did verify, though, that there were factors associated with the suspicion of delay in the children’s development, namely: low family income, less than 18 months in-between their mother’s pregnancies and childbirth, and their mother’s lack of support from the child’s father. These items were not considered in this study, although the coastal area of Paraná is known to have similar conditions. This highlights the need for developing further studies to verify the actual influence of these factors in the development of the evaluated children.

This study found that the variable associated with the questionable development was a class in which some of the children were enrolled. However, no studies were found that verified the association of the child’s class with the risk in their development. It is known that the teachers’ schooling and the number of children in each class may be influential factors to child development¹⁹; nonetheless, the routine of this particular class would need to be further observed in order to evaluate which factors did influence the development of these children.

In literature²¹, there are aspects related to delay in neuropsychomotor development, especially in the language of children enrolled in education institutions whose educators have less schooling, lower socioeconomic level, and poorer and simpler linguistic styles, in addition to an inadequate educator-child proportion and lack of training and continuous education of the professionals. These variables may be related to the particular class referred to in this study, deserving future studies for further investigation and verification.

In this study’s nutritional condition assessment, there was higher prevalence of obesity (22.35%) in comparison to malnutrition (4.71%), similar result to that observed in the study by Biscegli et al.²⁰. This result is in agreement with the ongoing process of nutritional transition, in which there is a decrease in the prevalence of nutritional deficits and a more expressive occurrence of obesity²³.

Nutritional control is made necessary due to the high prevalence of nutritional alterations, such as malnutrition and, more recently, obesity - particularly in the period extending from birth to five years of age, when new kinds of food are being introduced in the child’s diet²⁰. These first years of life make part of a stage that is essential and at the same time vulnerable for the development and growth of the child²⁴. Thus, the nutritional condition is related to the neuropsychomotor development, as observed in this study, which, despite the lack of a significant result, considering the children that presented some nutritional risk, 34.78% also had questionable neuropsychomotor development.

The results present in the article written by Andrade et al.²⁵ indicated that the better the quality of the environmental stimulation available to the child, the better their cognitive performance. This relation between neuropsychomotor development and cognitive performance, also found in this study, shows the need of stimulating the aspects found to be at risk, such as socialization and social integration.

The study authored by Lordelo et al.²⁶ evaluated the effects of a day care center in the cognitive development of children. It compared children who stayed home with those who attended the day care center and verified that attending the day care center did not influence the cognitive performance; however, it did show an association with family income and the mother’s schooling. This study did not investigate family income nor the mother’s schooling, therefore further investigation of the family context of the evaluated children is made necessary in order to verify the influence of family factors in their cognitive development.

The general results of this research are in agreement with other studies^9,10,27 that emphasize the need of preventive and intervening actions related to the neuropsychomotor development, with a wider health perspective, including in the school environment, aiming at furnishing an overall development of the children that spend a great part of the day in the early childhood education centers. In addition, there’s a need to look attentively into language, and biological and environmental risk factors related to this area²⁸ so as to implement stimulation and follow-up programs²¹ with the use of complementary tools²⁹.

After analyzing the children’s neuropsychomotor development, there’s a need to deepen the investigation of the results deemed questionable in order to minimize the risk of delay in the participating children’s motor and psychomotor development. It is also known that it’s necessary to follow up these children for a longer period of time, with repeated evaluations.

Another issue is the establishing of early intervention and attention-giving programs, in order to have an adequate stimulation of child development since the primary prevention level. Neuropsychomotor intervention in the first months of life should not be restricted to offering stimuli and carrying out activities aimed at developing a single area; instead, the overall development of the child should be in view, with greater emphasis on the most jeopardized areas and skills.

It should be considered that cultural differences may affect these results, as well as the family’s socioeconomic situation. In addition to that, it’s highlighted that the screening tests call attention to a potential risk which may or may not be confirmed by means of a systematic follow-up and repeated evaluations, complemented by diagnostic tests. Nevertheless, the study suggests that children subject to potential developmental delays must be early identified, so that intervention programs mays be established aimed at preventing alterations in their development, thus offering these children at risk a set of facilitating actions for their adequate maturation in all aspects, and allowing them to reach maximum level of social integration and personal development.

Future studies are suggested, such that may define the proportion to which families and institutions influence the child development. Nonetheless, supervising the development is an important health procedure and should be undertaken regardless of the environment where the child lives. It’s known that very few early childhood education institutions systematically follow up their children’s development; notwithstanding, this study points out that this multidisciplinary team health procedure is made necessary.

Conclusion

In this research, 30.58% of the participating children presented questionable neuropsychomotor development, especially in the area of language. It was further perceived that the class in which the child is enrolled may constitute a barrier for their development. These children presented nutritional risks, with a tendency to obesity, as well as indications of difficulties related to adaptation and socialization or self-esteem.

Such findings justify actions to be taken to promote the early identification and intervention of children in these conditions. Such procedure should involve a multidisciplinary team and be active in the early childhood education institutions, since the overall development of the child should be kept in mind. The multidisciplinary team is essential for the children’s development, since its evaluation must include a broad perspective about the child, encompassing the cognitive, emotional, nutritional and speech-language pathology aspects associated with the neuropsychomotor development.

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  Project developed at the Federal University of Paraná, coastland branch campus, Matinhos, Paraná, Brazil.
• Source of support: this project was carried out with the support of the Higher Education Personnel Improvement Coordination - Brazil (CAPES, from the acronym in Portuguese) - Financing Code 001.

Publication Dates

• Publication in this collection
  15 Aug 2019
• Date of issue
  2019

History

• Received
  26 Sept 2018
• Accepted
  27 June 2019