Prevalence of Developmental Coordination Disorder in Rio Maior and São João da Ribeira in children with 3 and 4 years old
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The developmental coordination disorder (DCD) is a motor disorder without neu-ral compromising that affects 5-6% of children in school-age (Zwicker, Missiuna, Harris, & Boyd, 2012).
The study aims to identify and describe the prevalence of probable DCD in in Rio Maior and São João da Ribeira in children with 3 and 4 years old. It was applied MABC-2 (Henderson & Sugden, 2007) in 46 children (3.9±0.26 years old, 25 and 21 boys) of three preschools.
2 children were identified has having probable DCD (4.4%), 7 children as being in the risk zone (15.2%), and 37 children as having a typical motor development (80.4%). It was verified a prevalence of left-handedness in probble DCD children (Cairney et al., 2008; Flouris, Faught, Hay, & Cairney, 2005). The least scored categories were aiming-catching for typical and probable DCD children, and bal-ance for at risk children; probably due to the involvement in less activities requir-ing aiming-catching and balance tasks, contrasting to a biggest incidence in man-ual dexterity activities, in order to prepare children for primary school.
This study clarifies the importance of MABC-2 application in order to identify probable DCD, as well as at risk children which had an incidence superior in 3.4 times.
The study aims to identify and describe the prevalence of probable DCD in in Rio Maior and São João da Ribeira in children with 3 and 4 years old. It was applied MABC-2 (Henderson & Sugden, 2007) in 46 children (3.9±0.26 years old, 25 and 21 boys) of three preschools.
2 children were identified has having probable DCD (4.4%), 7 children as being in the risk zone (15.2%), and 37 children as having a typical motor development (80.4%). It was verified a prevalence of left-handedness in probble DCD children (Cairney et al., 2008; Flouris, Faught, Hay, & Cairney, 2005). The least scored categories were aiming-catching for typical and probable DCD children, and bal-ance for at risk children; probably due to the involvement in less activities requir-ing aiming-catching and balance tasks, contrasting to a biggest incidence in man-ual dexterity activities, in order to prepare children for primary school.
This study clarifies the importance of MABC-2 application in order to identify probable DCD, as well as at risk children which had an incidence superior in 3.4 times.
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Mercê, C., Branco, M., Fernandes, O., & Catela, D. (2019). Prevalence of Developmental Coordination Disorder in Rio Maior and São João da Ribeira in children with 3 and 4 years old. Medi@ções, 7(2), 179–192. https://doi.org/10.60546/mo.v7i2.132
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