CORRELAÇÃO DE FATORES BIOPSICOSSOCIAIS DURANTE A PANDEMIA POR COVID-19 COM O NEURODESENVOLVIMENTO DE CRIANÇAS DE 1 A 24 MESES

Abstract

The period of social isolation caused by the Covid-19 pandemic may have interfered in the neuropsychomotor development of the child population worldwide. This study aims to investigate the correlation of biopsychosocial factors during Covid-19 pandemic with the neurodevelopment of children aged 1 to 24 months from the perspective of the family. It was submitted to the Research Ethics Committee of the Fundação de Teaching and Research of the South of Minas-FEPESMIG and approved in accordance with Opinion No 5,346,684 and CAAE: 57134222.40000.5111. An investigation was carried out through a online questionnaire, in which the person responsible for the child accepted to participate and agreed with the TCLE and then the questionnaire approached the characterization of the sample, based on the ICF criteria and referring to the Survey of Wellbeing of Young Children (SWYC) scale, in the which parents and/or guardians responded through google forms. The data was collected, inserted and tabulated with the support of the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet version 2019 for generation of pie charts and graphs and comparisons were carried out and analyzed by through the statistical package SPSS® for Windows, version 13.0. The statistics were used descriptive and inferential to determine the average values ​​and percentages. The analysis of correlation and graph generation was done using Spearman. The significance level admitted to this study was p≤ 0.05. Although babies born during the pandemic by COVID-19 showed some delay in neurodevelopment, there were no strong correlations with environmental and social factors occurred during this period. You results pointed to the need for an investigation regarding the difficulty of family to stimulate the babies month by month, since the other factors investigated did not showed correlation.