Estudo da associação entre desenvolvimento infantil e incapacidade ligada a transtorno mental materno

Abstract

During early childhood the family ties, mainly with their mothers are essential to the development of the child. One of the risk factors for child development is the impairment of maternal adequate mental health. Our hypothesis is that there is na association between child development and disability from common mental disorders (CMD). Cross-sectional study in which participants were children aged 2 to 6 years of age enrolled in two day care centers and their mothers. The two nurseries are located in the 7th district of the city of Maceió, Alagoas. The children had their development assessed by the Denver II in their personal - social and language dimensions of and the mothers had their mental health assessed by the SRQ-20 and disability associated with the SDS. In addition, a questionnaire was applied for evaluation of the socio-demographic variables and selected risk factors. The percentage of mothers with CMD was high (23.9%), and the percentage of delay in child development was also high (personal social 26.8% and language 52.1%), but there was no statistical association. There was no association between delays in social and personal development as well as development of language with disability associated with maternal CMD (p = 0.99 and p = 0.57 respectively). Logistic regression showed a significant association between delay in social and personal development "age of the child" (OR = 8.07, 95% CI = 2.49 to 26.12). With regard to the delay in language development were significant associations with the variables "number of children" (OR = 4.58 95% CI = 1.03 to 20.27) and "maternal age" (OR = 2.47 95% CI = 0.87 to 6.96). These results infer a percentage of delay in the social personal development and of language in the sample of children attending the daycare. It is suggested to carry out further studies to prove the existence of this high percentage of delay children developmental that may have important implications in the lives of these people.