Development of cognitive abilities of children infected with helminths through health education
| Autor: | Lucas Lobato, Aline Miranda, Isabela Marinho Faria, Jeffrey Michael Bethony, Maria Flávia Gazzinelli |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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| Zdroj: | Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, Vol 45, Iss 4, Pp 514-519 (2012) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 1678-9849 0037-8682 |
| DOI: | 10.1590/S0037-86822012000400020 |
| Popis: | 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 |
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