Estrategias para el desarrollo psicomotriz en niños menores de 2 años con desnutrición

Abstract

The present research work was oriented to the psychomotor development in children from 1 to 24 months of age with malnutrition, for which, it aims to identify the level of psychomotor development of children from 1 month to 24 months of age malnourished in the neighborhood of Gullanzhapa, Cuenca canton, Azuay province. The study was quantitative, descriptive and prospective, where the Denver test instrument was used to assess the psychomotor sphere. What has made it possible to demonstrate that the average age of the children is 13.76 months with a SD of 5.48, where there are more men than women, with a sex ratio of 1.7/1:M/F or 170/100; In the case of psychomotor development, the abnormal is 80% globally, dividing it by areas we find the percentages in abnormal are: fine and gross motor skills, the percentage of 60% in each of these areas. In language the result is 28%. Finally, in the area of social personnel the percentage was 24%.