Abstract
Brain maturation in 1–36 month old children suffering from congenital cardiopathologies was assessed after a study of psychomotor
development. The Rogers’ test (Rogers et al., Developmental programming for infants and young children. Volume 2. Early intervention
developmental profile, Revised edition, ESL/ELT Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1981) was applied to 65 children, of whom 21 presented with simple cardiopathologies (CpS) and 22 with complex cardiopathologies
(CpC). All children were matched by age, sex and socioeconomic status to 22 healthy children in a control group (C). Mean
differences between the three groups were established by applying the Kruskal–Wallis test, and mean differences between the
C and CpS/CpC groups were determined using the Mann–Whitney test. The proportion of cases evaluated as “low” in each group
was calculated by applying the Rogers’ test, and a test of proportion differences was applied between the C and CpS/CpC groups.
CpS children performed similarly to the C, whereas CpC children scored significantly lower than C children on all variables.
It is highly likely that the suboptimal psychomotor performance observed in CpC children was due to compromised hemodynamics
and related to subclinical immaturity of cerebral development.
development. The Rogers’ test (Rogers et al., Developmental programming for infants and young children. Volume 2. Early intervention
developmental profile, Revised edition, ESL/ELT Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1981) was applied to 65 children, of whom 21 presented with simple cardiopathologies (CpS) and 22 with complex cardiopathologies
(CpC). All children were matched by age, sex and socioeconomic status to 22 healthy children in a control group (C). Mean
differences between the three groups were established by applying the Kruskal–Wallis test, and mean differences between the
C and CpS/CpC groups were determined using the Mann–Whitney test. The proportion of cases evaluated as “low” in each group
was calculated by applying the Rogers’ test, and a test of proportion differences was applied between the C and CpS/CpC groups.
CpS children performed similarly to the C, whereas CpC children scored significantly lower than C children on all variables.
It is highly likely that the suboptimal psychomotor performance observed in CpC children was due to compromised hemodynamics
and related to subclinical immaturity of cerebral development.
- Content Type Journal Article
- Pages 1-8
- DOI 10.1007/s10880-012-9314-3
- Authors
- M. Rosario Porcayo-Mercado, Facultad de Ciencias de la Conducta, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, Toluca, MEX, Mexico
- Gloria A. Otero-Ojeda, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, P. Tollocan esq. J. Carranza (s/n), 50180 Toluca, MEX, Mexico
- F. Bernardo Pliego-Rivero, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, P. Tollocan esq. J. Carranza (s/n), 50180 Toluca, MEX, Mexico
- Dalia M. Aguirre-Pérez, Centro de Investigación en Ciencias Médicas, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, Toluca, MEX, Mexico
- Josefina Ricardo-Garcell, Instituto de Neurobiología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Campus Juriquilla, Juriquilla, QRO, Mexico
- Journal Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings
- Online ISSN 1573-3572
- Print ISSN 1068-9583