Abstract
to analyze the knowledge of caregivers and the factors associated with neuropsychomotor development in children. a cross-sectional study, with a quantitative approach, was conducted with 220 child-caregiver binomials attended in the public health services of the municipality of Parnaíba, State of Piauí. The study used the "Denver Test II" and the "Inventory of Child Development Knowledge". the study classified 197 children with natural development and 23 with suspicious development. Caregivers with a higher level of knowledge about child development were associated with children with better development. The study considered caregiver knowledge, gestational age, and exclusive breastfeeding as protective factors for appropriate neuropsychomotor development when used the regression model. actions aimed at indicators that presented positive associations must be implemented to improve child development, such as educational activities to increase the level of knowledge of caregivers, improvement of prenatal monitoring, and encouragement of breastfeeding.
Highlights
Initiated from intrauterine life, childhood neuropsychomotor development (NPMD) is an essential and unique process that every child experiences
The study associated caregivers with greater ownership over child development with children with better neuropsychomotor development verified in the bivariate and multivariate analysis
This study found that the knowledge of caregivers about child development is directly related to the neuropsychomotor development of children: the higher the level of knowledge, the greater the probability of adequate development
Summary
Initiated from intrauterine life, childhood neuropsychomotor development (NPMD) is an essential and unique process that every child experiences It is considered a complex, continuous, dynamic and progressive transformation that causes changes in several areas (physical, social, emotional and cognitive), in a mixed interaction between them and the environment, in which each period is built on the basis of the previous stages[1,2]. This development results from the mutual influence between genetic inheritance and the environment in which the child lives. As a public health problem, an early diagnosis and intervention in childhood’s NPMD is one hundred times less than the cost of treating a child with a late diagnosis[7]
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