WSEAS Transactions on Biology and Biomedicine
Print ISSN: 1109-9518, E-ISSN: 2224-2902
Volume 12, 2015
Statistical Analysis of Psychomotor Therapy in Children with Attention-Deficit/hyperactivity Disorder
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Abstract: One of the most common behavioural disorders in school age children, which has registered a high increase of the prevalence rate in the last decade, is Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder – a neurological condition that involves problems with inattention and hyperactivity-impulsivity which are developmentally inconsistent with the children’s age. It has much comorbidity affecting a child’s life in every domain with a negative influence in the prognosis of her condition. Psychomotor deficits are responsible for many of the learning disabilities of these children. A sample of children with the diagnosis of Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, under psychomotor therapy followed in the Department of Child Psychiatry of Centro Hospitalar Cova da Beira (in Portugal), was submitted to a Psychomotor Battery. Nonparametric approaches (as graphical techniques and hypothesis tests) were applied to the data, collected at baseline and at the end of the intervention. The main result shows that there is a statistical significant improvement of the psychomotor profile after psychomotor therapy (supported by both total scores of Psychomotor Battery and some particular psychomotor factors).
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Pages: 39-43
WSEAS Transactions on Biology and Biomedicine, ISSN / E-ISSN: 1109-9518 / 2224-2902, Volume 12, 2015, Art. #6