Psychomotor profile characterization of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. / Caracterização do perfil psicomotor de crianças com transtorno do déficit de atenção e hiperatividade (TDA/H).

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

RESUMO

Nowadays, there are a large number of professionals from different areas using motricity or psychomotricity as a way of studying many contexts, implying that motricity is the interaction of several motor functions. The aim of this study was to characterize the psychomotor profile of children aging from 6 to 11 years old with an Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) clinical diagnosis. Ten Children that were attending the Childrens Psychiatric Department of a Hospital from a Sao Paulo State city, from April/ 2006 to June/ 2006 had participated on the present research. In order to be selected, children must have satisfied the inclusion criteria, and also they must not have any exclusion criteria. After obtaining parental consent, children were evaluated. The assessment tool was Motor Development Scale (MDS) developed by Francisco Rosa Neto (1996), focusing 5 psychomotor factors, including fine motricity, global motricity, equilibrium, body scheme, and space organization. With the applied tasks, it became possible to verify all kinds of variation on the psychomotor performance establishing, or not, a relationship with the ADHD. The results suggests that the ADHD children did not have a satisfying motor performance, however it is not possible to assume that the ADHD was the only cause of the low performance, it is necessary to consider other issues as environments, social end economic level, and others, though this study does not concerns this issues.

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psicologia hyperactivity hiperatividade déficit de atenção attention deficit psychomotor profile perfil psicomotor

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