Do environmental influences alter motor abilities acquisition? A comparison among children from day-care centers and private schools.

Full Abstract

Development occurs in a proper rhythm as result of genetic inheritance and environment factors. This study had the aim to identify some environmental risk factors for the motor development in two groups of healthy children. 100 pre-school aged (five years children) from two day-care centers and a private school were evaluated, in Recife-PE. All the children underwent to a motor skills assessment and their parents answered a questionnaire. The children from the public nursery remained behind in fine motor skills. The results showed that the biologically healthy children development can suffer negative influence of the environmental risk factors. In this research these factors were:
the father absence, improper toys use to the correct age, the place were the child was kept in the early childhood, the lack of pedagogical guidance and extra-parental socialization and low familiar socioeconomic status.

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Author information

Author/s: de Barros, Karla Mônica F T (KM); Fragoso, Andreza Gusmão Câmara (AG); de Oliveira, Andréa Lemos Bezerra (AL); Cabral Filho, José Eulálio (JE); de Castro, Raul Manhães (RM);

Affiliation: Departamento de Fisioterapia, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife PE, Brasil. karla_monica(-atsign-)hotmail.com

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Comparative Study; Journal Article

Journal: Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria (Arq Neuropsiquiatr), published in Brazil. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2003-Jun; vol 61 (issue 2A) : pp 170-5

Dates: Created 2003/06/13; Completed 2003/09/08; Revised 2006/11/15;

PMID: 12806491, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)

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MeSH headings (categories)

This article was linked to the MESH Headings shown below.

Motor Skills - physiology
Motor Skills Disorders - diagnosis
Parents
Private Sector
Risk Factors
Schools
Socioeconomic Factors

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