Effect of swimming on the development of neuropsychological and adaptive behavior of infant

Abstract

Objective To investigate the effect of swimming on the development of neuropsychological and adaptive behavior of infant.Methods Totals of 62 cases of neonatal selected with criteria,were randomly divided into observation group and control group,with 31 cases each group.Control group received the routine nursing after birth,according to conventional methods.On this basis,infants of observation group had swimming once every day after birth 36 h,and extended to three months.Then,neonatal behavioral neurological assessment in the 1th,14th,28th day.And in the 90th day,neuropsychological development of social adaptive behavior tests were executed.Results No significant difference was found in the score of behavioral neurological assessment of observation group and control group in 1th day [(39.71 ± 1.51) vs (39.52 ± 1.26) ; t =0.548,P ＞ 0.05],While significant difference was found in the 14th day [(43.00 ± 1.77) vs (41.71 ±2.10)],28th day [(46.23 ±1.76) vs (44.65 ± 1.89)] between observation group and control group (t =2.615,3.404,respectively; P ＜0.05).The observed values of the observation group were significantly higher than that of the control group such as developmental quotient score [(3.59 ± 0.28) vs (3.32 ± 0.34)],mental age score [(115.74 ± 8.54) vs (105.94 ± 8.97)],behavior score [(124.90 ± 12.10) vs (113.26 ± 15.24)],adaptive ability score [(118.52±14.92) vs (103.13 ±14.85)],social behavior score [(131.87 ±25.73) vs (117.13 ±23.49)],and the difference was statistically significant (t =3.543,4.409,3.332,4.071,2.356,respectively ; P ＜ 0.05).Conclusions Swimming can promote the infants' neural behavior development,psychological development.And it can improve their social adaptive behaviors,which should be promoted. Key words: Infant; Swimming ; Behavioral neuroscience; Psychological development; Social adaptive behavior