Early motor development: risk factors for delay in a population study in Southern Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Zago, Ana Carolina
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Trettim, Jéssica Puchalski, Rubin, Bárbara Borges, Scholl, Carolina Coelho, Coelho, Fernanda Teixeira, Ulguim, Fernanda, Pinheiro, Luísa Mendonça de Souza, Matos, Mariana Bonati de, Pinheiro, Ricardo Tavares, Quevedo, Luciana de Avila
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Revista de Saúde Pública
• Texto Completo: https://www.revistas.usp.br/rsp/article/view/217335
• topic: Child Development; Infant, Low Birth Weight; Cesarean Section

OBJECTIVE: To assess risk factors associated with motor development delay at three months of age. METHODS: Cross-sectional study with mothers and their three-month-old babies in Southern Brazil. The Bayley-III Scale of Infant and Toddler Development (BSID-III) and the Alberta Infant Motor Scale (AIMS) were used to assess motor development. RESULTS: We evaluated 756 mothers and their three-month-old babies. The overall mean motor development assessed by the BSID-III and the AIMS was 104.7 (SD 13.5) and 55.4 (SD 25.4), respectively. When assessed by the BSID-III, the lowest motor development scores were among babies born by cesarean delivery (p = 0.002), prematurely (p < 0.001), and with low birth weight (p < 0.001). When assessed by the AIMS, babies born prematurely (p = 0.002) and with low birth weight (p=0.004) had the lowest motor development means. After a cluster analysis, we found that babies born by cesarean delivery, with low birth weight, and prematurely had more impaired motor development compared with children born without any risk factors. CONCLUSION: Identifying risk factors allows the implementation of early interventions to prevent motor development delay and, therefore, reduce the probability of other future problems.