Early stimulation, cognitive and neuromotor delay in preterm infants

Abstract

The identification of the level of maturation of a child within its psychomotor neurodevelopment is of importance to demonstrate the existence or not of a deficit, in addition to its relationship with the application of early stimulation within the first year of life GENERAL OBJECTIVE: To determine the relationship between psychomotor development assessed with the Denver II test and prematurity of newborns in the Neonatology Department of the IESS Riobamba Hospital, in the year 2019 - 2020. Data were collected from 50 children who met the inclusion criteria, the data obtained were tabulated in SPSS software version 22, and then analyzed and interpreted using statistical tables. RESULTS: The results obtained showed a statistically significant relationship between receiving early stimulation with the social-personal area with p= 0.031-OR= 8, IC=95% (0.94-68.4); as in the gross motor area with p= 0.006-OR= 7.969 IC=95% (1.57-40.5) which decreases the possibility of developing a global delay in neuropsychomotor development.