Evaluación del desarrollo psicomotor en atención primaria para pesquisa del retraso del desarrollo psicomotor en niños menores de 5 años

Abstract

Abstract:In the present study, the analysis of the evaluation of psychomotor development in primary care is carried out for the investigation of the delay in psychomotor development in children under 5 years of age, through screening tests of psychomotor development. Objective: To verify the sensitivity and specificity of the Denver Test in psychomotor development in boys and girls under 5 years of age, comparing it with other Tests in the investigation of delay in psychomotor development. Methodology: The review was formed by searching for several articles in some databases such as: PubMed, Scielo, Medline, academic Google, among others. When starting the search, Mesh and Decs terms were used using Boléan operators, then the articles were filtered according to the exclusion and inclusion criteria. Furthermore, with the selected articles the sensitivity and specificity of each one was obtained. Results: From the articles, it was obtained by means of a formula to obtain specificity and sensitivity, that the Prunape test yielded values of 80 and 93% respectively, compared with the Denver test with the values of 35% sensitivity and 97% specificity, which they are relatively low. Conclusion: It was concluded that the Prunape Test is the most indicated for primary care due to its high sensitivity and specificity compared to the Denver test, the use of the Prunape Test could be recommended worldwide, with which the quality of life and a better development of children, when carrying out an early detection in the first years of life.