Development of cognitive abilities of children infected with helminths through health education

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte¹  Universidade George Washington, Washington, USA¹  Gazzinelli, Maria Flávia¹  Miranda, Aline¹  Faria, Isabela Marinho¹  Bethony, Jeffrey Michael¹  Centro Universitário Newton Paiva, Belo Horizonte¹  Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Belo Horizonte¹  Lobato, Lucas¹ 

关键词: Learning;    Children;    Cognitive development;    Health education;    Helminthosis;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0037-86822012000400020

学科分类：农业科学（综合）

来源: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

【 摘 要 】

INTRODUCTION: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of health education in learning and cognitive development of children infected, previously treated in an endemic area for helminthiasis. METHODS: It is a longitudinal, experimental, with random allocation of participants. The study included 87 children of both sexes enrolled in the school hall of Maranhão, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, and divided into two groups: intervention and control. Initially the children were submitted to the parasitological fecal examination for infection diagnosis and, when positive, they were treated. For the data collection, a structured questionnaire and the psychological tests Raven, Wisc-III and DAP III were applied, before and after the educational intervention. For the group comparison, the Mann Whitney test was used, and established significance level of 5%.RESULTS: It was found that previously infected children who received the educational intervention, children showed higher performance than the control group in strutured questionnaire (p<0.05).CONCLUSIONS: It is acceptable to suppose the positive influence and the importance in the use of educational interventions in the cognitive recovery and learning of children previously treated with anthelmintics.

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