Monitoring of the development of the healthy child from 1 to 12 months of age through the Denver II Development Screening Test.

Abstract

One of the alternatives to prevent delays in the development of the infant under three years old is the surveillance and monitoring of the development through sieve scales. The objective of the present study was to make a thorough analysis of the levels of development that reaches the population that attends the FES CIETEP surveillance program for the first time at Iztacala, UNAM through the scale of scrutiny of Denver II (DDST II). 271 infants participated from 1 to 12 months of age, apparently healthy from the 2004-2005 cycle. Applied to a battery of tests including the DDST II. The study was a quantitative descriptive. We analyzed the data obtained from the records in the program SPSS-22. The
results showed that 54% had normal, diagnostic doubtful 31% and 15% abnormal. The area with further delay was gross motor skills, and the ages with the highest risk were 4, 6 and 12 months. Delays were also found in the personal social and fine motor areas. It is concluded that DDST II is a useful instrument in the detection of problems in the development.