Childhood milestones, a predictive factor for neurodevelopment

Abstract

PROBLEM: The neurodevelopmental process is a neurobiological context that can vary in expressions within the neurotypical range, it can be affected by multiple infectious microbiological factors for example by viruses such as HIV or nutritional deficiency factors such as chronic malnutrition and probably expressed in alterations of developmental milestones, which so far is not clear the real magnitude effect in this context. OBJECTIVE: to evaluate the level of neurodevelopment and neurodevelopmental milestones in 40 children attended in Association of people living with human immunodeficiency virus (APEVIHS), exposed and / or diagnosed with HIV, with chronic malnutrition, between the ages of 0 to 12 years, according to the application of the psychometric test DP-3 (DEVELOPMENTAL PROFILE - 3) by G. D. Alpern, Evaluable in five areas, motor, adaptive, socio-emotional, cognitive and communication. METHOD: the study was based on the positivist, quantitative, non-experimental, cross-sectional scientific approach. Through the psychometric test called DP-3, the statistical analysis will be parametric-descriptive. RESULTS: it was determined that in most of the children the level of development of each of the areas evaluated presented a low and very low level of development and a normal minority, based on the universal milestones immersed in the psychometric test that were investigated. CONCLUSION: there is a need for an in-depth investigation of neurodevelopmental milestones in all children with HIV.