Estudo comparativo do Desenvolvimento neuropsicomotor ... - Unama

Andrielle Guimarães Rodrigues; Letícia Alves Fonseca. Comparative study of the
neuropsychomotor development on children born from HIV positive mothers that used the
AZT medicine and children from negative mothers to the virus HIV. Universidade da
Amazônia, Belém, Pará, 2007.
ABSTRACT
Introduction: The development neuropsychomotor studies are complex and suffer the
influence of ambiental and genetics factors. Because the impoverishment and not breastfeeded
and of people HIV positive or children no exposit to the virus are able to present alterations
on the development. Objective: To analyze the neuropsychomotor development on children
born from HIV- positive mothers to the virus HIV that used the AZT medicine during the
pregnancy in comparison with children from HIV-negative to the virus HIV. Methods: The
study is observational and transversal. We selected 37 patients that are 6 months old (about 15
days), 17 children on the experimental group and 20 children on the control group, submitted
an evaluation with 19 tests from the neuropsychomotor development of protocol from
COELHO (1999), obeying the inclusion and exclusion criterion. Results: It was used the test
of qui-square to analyze the neuropsychomotor development of children from HIV-positive
mothers that used AZT and children non displayed to the virus, so, without present significant
statistic difference on the corporal reaction rectification tests, seat without support, Landau I e
Landau II. Conclusion: On this research there weren’t alterations on the motor development
of the children. Then, it is accepted the void hypothesis, establishing that the AZT on the
pregnancy period don’t interfere in the neuropsychomotor. New studies envolving samples
with different age groups, like with a major number of children could collaborate with a
confirmation of obtained information.
KEY WORDS: Neuropsychomotor development, human immunodeficiency virus,
zidovudine.
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