Produção inicial de fala, risco ao desenvolvimento infantil e variáveis socioeconômicas, demográficas, psicossociais e obstétricas

Abstract

The objectives of the present research were to study the correlations between the presence of risk to child development and the interference of socioeconomic, demographic, psychosocial and obstetric variables, and to investigate the association between the presence of risk to child development and children initial speech production from 13 to 16 months of age. The quantitative, descriptive study of comparative nature about the behavioral manifestations of the mother-infant interactive process consisted of the evaluation of an initial sample of 182 mother-child dyads who were followed for 18 months in a cohort study. The final sample for the study of socioeconomic, demographic, psychosocial, and obstetric variables consisted of 64 infants and for the initial speech production study, the sample consisted of 54 infants. The collecting procedures were based on an initial interview, during the first stage of collection (1-4 months), on the application of the Risk Indicators for Child Development Protocol (1-18 months) and on the collection of children speech production between 13 and 16 months of age, by spontaneous observation and maternal report. Statistical analysis was developed through the application of non-parametric tests. The results demonstrated that there is a significantly association between the presence of risk to infant development and socioeconomic, demographic, psychosocial and obstetric variables. It was also verified that the initial language acquisition correlates significantly with the presence of development risks, since infants at risk present initial speech output in numerical magnitude statistically lower compared to infants without risk. Therefore, the risk to child development is multifactorial, being necessary to observe the constitutional aspects of the infant and relational to the environment, especially in relation to who plays the maternal role, in order to analyze and decide on the clinical referral. Keywords: Infant care. Infant. Child development. Risk factors. Language. Socioeconomic factors