Abstract
ABSTRACTObjective: To identify scientific knowledge about the attention to health surveillance and development of Brazilian children under the age of three years involving the Congenital Zika virus (ZIKV) Syndrome.Data sources: This is an integrative literature review of primary studies with Brazilian children under three years of age from 2015 to 2019. The searches were carried out in the databases Latin American and Caribbean Literature in Health Sciences (LILACS), US National Library of Medicine (PubMed), Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), SCOPUS and Web of Science. It was carried out by crossing the keywords in English (child, child development and Zika virus) and in Portuguese (criança, desenvolvimento infantil e Zika vírus), with the combination of the Boolean operator “AND”.Data synthesis: The knowledge produced is related to the specific health and development problems of children affected by the Congenital ZIKV Syndrome, with clinical characteristics, care demands, multiprofessional performance, health monitoring and surveillance needs.Conclusions: This integrative review synthesized scientific knowledge by adding aspects that reinforce the relevance of appropriate approaches to assess and care for children, linked to the engagement of caregivers, the need to document, evaluate and track the situations of children in early childhood and long-term, management coordination of care and its challenges in the context of primary health care.
Highlights
Health care for children with chronic conditions such as the syndrome caused by the Zika virus (ZIKV) is of great relevance, since there are different demands, information and guidelines for the care of the child and their family
The guiding question of the study was: “What is the scientific knowledge about the development and health surveillance of children under three years of age affected by the congenital ZIKV syndrome?”
The publications addressed the situation in which the children’s health is affected by the congenital ZIKV syndrome, and the results of our review were organized in the following thematic units: Rev Paul Pediatr. 2022;40:e2020335
Summary
Health care for children with chronic conditions such as the syndrome caused by the Zika virus (ZIKV) is of great relevance, since there are different demands, information and guidelines for the care of the child and their family. The ZIKV outbreak, which hit Brazil in 2015 and left the world on alert, represents a serious public health problem because of the degree of impairment that the congenital ZIKV syndrome causes, with a rapid dispersion capacity[1] and a continuum of consequences for the children and their families.[2]. Monitoring the child’s health is vital when identifying vulnerability situations and for the intervention with actions of stimulus and attention to the demands of care, since these are children with special and complex needs[6,7] and whose families encounter substantial challenges.[8]
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