Avaliação do neurodesenvolvimento em crianças com sífilis congênita através do teste de Denver II

Abstract

Objective: To evaluate the performance of infants with congenital syphilis from the Denver Test II. Methods: This is an epidemiological and descriptive study. Data were collected at the Aracaju Teaching Maternity in 2022 through the Denver II Test in children aged 0 to 6 years. This is a child developmental risk screening test, which includes 125 items that assess social and personal behavior, language and motor skills advocated. Results: Among the items of the instrument, there were alterations of 4 marks in the personal-social evaluation, 3 marks in the adaptive fine motor and 1 mark in language. On the other hand, there were no relevant changes in gross motor skills. The prevalence of individuals who presented a risk test on the Denver II was 80.7%, with 54.5% being male. Regarding the nutritional factor, 29.8% of the children practice family feeding. Moreover, the mothers had a mean age of 23.5 years. Most of the interviewees (61.4%) reported not having a provider and 98.2% reported maternal education, but only 8.8% had completed higher education. In the inferential statistics it was found that when there are more children in the family context the children presented later milestones. Conclusion: When performing the inferential statistics comparing the maternal variable, number of children, with the Denver II test it was found that the more children the p-value was 0.040, therefore statistically significant for delayed developmental milestones. Therefore, the Denver II scale