Referral profile of a child development clinic in northern India.

Autor: Juneja M; Child Development Clinic, Department of Pediatrics, Maulana Azad Medical College and associated Lok Nayak Hospital, Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, New Delhi 110002, India. drmonicajuneja@rediffmail.com, Jain R, Mishra D
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Indian journal of pediatrics [Indian J Pediatr] 2012 May; Vol. 79 (5), pp. 602-5. Date of Electronic Publication: 2011 Jul 20.
DOI: 10.1007/s12098-011-0525-7
Abstrakt: Objective: To delineate the demographic and clinical profile of children referred to a Child Development Clinic (CDC) of a tertiary care public hospital in India.
Methods: A retrospective review of medical records of all the cases referred to CDC in the year 2009 was conducted.
Results: Out of the 792 children referred to CDC, complete medical records were available in 641 cases, which comprised the study population. 66% were males and mean age at referral was 54.06 ± 44.4 months. 68.64% children had global developmental delay or mental retardation, majority (51.1%) of them having severe or profound retardation. 168 (26.2%) patients had various forms of cerebral palsy, with 39.3% being quadriplegics and 121 (18.9%) patients had pervasive developmental disorders. Only, 1.2% of cases had isolated motor delay and 2.9% had developmental language disorder.
Conclusions: This study shows that in developing countries the proportion of children referred to CDC with severe disabling conditions is high and a significant proportion of these children have pervasive developmental disorders. This study provides baseline data for further planning of services for these children in the authors' region.
Databáze: MEDLINE
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