Effectiveness of an intervention with mothers to stimulate children under two years

Abstract

Objective:To analyze the effectiveness of an educational intervention with mothers to stimulate children under two years of age at risk for neuropsychomotor development.Method:Before-after intervention study, conducted with 52 mothers of children under two years old, enrolled in reference centers in early childhood education. Initially, maternal knowledge regarding child development and stimulation was assessed through a structured instrument. Then, workshops were held with the mothers and, after three months, maternal knowledge was revised, reapplying the data collection instrument. In the analysis, descriptive and inferential statistics were used, applying the McNemar and Wilcoxon tests and the Rasch Model from the Item Response Theory.Results:after the intervention, there was a significant increase in scores regarding the following aspects: knowledge of mothers about child development and stimulation from 5.77 ± 1.85 to 18.60 ± 1.94 (p <0.001); reduction of the maternal difficulty index in answering the instrument questions from 1.17 ± 0.57 to -1.98 ± 1.63 (p 0.01).Conclusion:the educational intervention contributed to the improvement of maternal knowledge regarding the development and forms of child stimulation, corroborating the importance of this action to advance the health of children at risk under maternal care at home.

Parental Practices and Environmental Differences among Infants Living in Upper-Middle and High-Income Countries: A Cross-Sectional Study

“…In this context, in countries where there are education issues, i.e., UMIC, previous family knowledge on how to work horizontally with health professionals may be useful as orientation, and effective learning strategies (workshops, illustrative materials, practices on dolls, active methodology, and problem-based approaches) should be used to teach about a child’s motor skills development in order to improve and stimulate parental knowledge [ 44 ].…”

Intervenção educativa sobre uso de mídias digitais na primeira infância

“…No teste de Mann-Whitney, a hipótese nula foi acatada, mostrando que não foram encontradas diferenças estatisticamente significativas no nível de satisfação com relação ao número de palestras assistidas (U = 44, 00; p = 0.150). Outras intervenções educativas com número de encontros próximos a quatro também registraram resultados semelhantes quanto à satisfação (Silva et al, 2018;Torquato et al, 2019). Esse resultado sugere a possibilidade de reduzir o número de encontros para menos de quatro encontros sem prejuízo quanto à satisfação com o curso.…”

“…O presente estudo adotou a premissa de que a intervenção educativa é um meio eficaz para transmitir conhecimento teóricoprático sobre o uso de mídias digitais na primeira infância (Pedrotti, 2019). Destaca-se que intervenções educativas realizadas com o mesmo objetivo de transmitir e aprimorar conhecimentos, ainda que sobre outros tópicos centrais, demonstraram eficácia e efetividade em outros contextos (Gholamian et al, 2019;Harrison et al, 2006;Lewis, 2020;Machado et al, 2010;Silva et al, 2018;Torquato et al, 2019).…”

Knowledge of the parents about child development: an integrative review

“…(13) Studies suggest that providing guidance to the main caregiver, in theory the mother, about aspects of the development, valuing their empirical knowledge about child stimulation, will facilitate the building of new opportunities to experiment at home. (1) Strategies of operational groups are constantly observed within the Brazilian Primary Health Care An operational group is nothing more than a set of people connected in time and space, determined to carry out a task, interacting in a network of roles and establishing connections between them, thus making it easier to promote health and increasing the interaction between the health team and its clients. (14) These groups can address many subjects and be organized in many different ways, depending on their objective.…”

“…These factors may have many origins: genetic, biological, associated to poor conditions of health and residence, inadequate practices of care/education, and an affected domestic environment. (1)(2) It has been estimated that, throughout the world, more than 250 million children are not reaching their highest development potential. Most of these children live in low and medium income countries, where they are more likely to be affected by factors such as malnutrition, poverty, low educational levels, frequent and chronic infections, and the lack of stimulus.…”