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Development of cognitive abilities of children infected with helminths through health education
- Source :
- Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical v.45 n.4 2012, Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT), instacron:SBMT, Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, Volume: 45, Issue: 4, Pages: 514-519, Published: AUG 2012, Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, Vol 45, Iss 4, Pp 514-519 (2012)
- Publication Year :
- 2012
- Publisher :
- Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical - SBMT, 2012.
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Abstract
- 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
- Subjects :
- Microbiology (medical)
Gerontology
Male
Helmintoses
lcsh:Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine
lcsh:RC955-962
Crianças
Helminthosis
Helminthiasis
Feces
Child Development
Intervention (counseling)
Statistical significance
Cognitive development
Medicine
Humans
Learning
Psychological testing
Desenvolvimento cognitivo
Longitudinal Studies
Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic
Child
Health Education
Children
business.industry
Cognition
medicine.disease
Aprendizado
Infectious Diseases
Educação em saúde
Health education
Case-Control Studies
Mann–Whitney U test
Parasitology
Female
business
Cognition Disorders
Brazil
Clinical psychology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical v.45 n.4 2012, Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT), instacron:SBMT, Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, Volume: 45, Issue: 4, Pages: 514-519, Published: AUG 2012, Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, Vol 45, Iss 4, Pp 514-519 (2012)
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....2ba632848b4ca7575c402d2f4dc713b0