| Autor: |
Roberto Lardoeyt Ferrer, Maria do Rosário Bragança, Fernando Alberto Quilezi, Vanilson Borges, Bárbara Tchissola Sanjulo da Rocha Quilezi, Marisa Teca Nuno, Vicelma Mateus Vicente Ferreira Borges, Albertino Candimba Sebastião |
| Jazyk: |
English<br />Spanish; Castilian |
| Rok vydání: |
2023 |
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| Zdroj: |
Revista Habanera de Ciencias Médicas, Vol 22, Iss 2, Pp e5296-e5296 (2023) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
1729-519X |
| Popis: |
Introduction: The American Association on Mental Retardation characterizes intellectual disability as significant limitations in intellectual functioning and adaptive behavior (practical, social, and conceptual skills), beginning before the age of 18. Objective: To characterize the causes of intellectual disability in a sample of institutionalized children at the Special School in Benguela in the People's Republic of Angola. Material and Methods: A prospective cross-sectional descriptive observational study was carried out on a population of 139 schoolchildren with intellectual disabilities. Guvtavson etiopathogenic classification was applied to define the cause. Results: Prenatal etiology was the most frequent (45.3%), followed by postnatal (29.5%) and perinatal ones (18.0%). Environmental etiology (20.9%) was the most prevalent in the prenatal category, highlighting alcohol consumption (8.6%). In the perinatal stage, hypoxia at birth (5.0%) stood out. In the postnatal stage, cerebral malaria (15.1%) was the first cause, being also the third most predominant among all categories. In addition, 80% of the cases studied had at least one relative with the same disability. In summary, 68.4% of the cases had an environmental cause, being totally preventable. Conclusions: The study corroborated that the noxas that operate in the prenatal stage affect the appearance of intellectual disability and is distinguished by positioning postnatal causes; cerebral malaria in second place. The factors of an environmental nature that operate both in the prenatal and postnatal stages are most influencing, but preventable. |
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