The Development and Integration Nurture for Delayed Developmental Child

Abstract

Background: Caring of a delayed developmental child required knowledge and continuous developmental stimulation program. A children of parent who could not bring them to follow up might had lower the ability to improve development by their potential. The development and integration nurture for the delayed developmental child was set for increase their development.

Objective: To evaluate an outcome of the development and integration nurture for delayed developmental child.

Methods: A retrospective analytical study of the development and integration nurture for the delayed developmental child in developmental stimulation clinic in Kalasin Hospital was carried out from January 1, 2006 to December 31, 2008. A study group was children who had been followed-up continuously and performed the development and integration nurture had been compared with a controlled group who had comparable in initial developmental status with a study group and had not followed-up continuously and had not performed the development and integration nurture .

Results: The clinic had 429 children , 117  were continuously followed-up and performed development and integration nurture (study group). Another 117 (controlled group) were selected from the rest 312 children who did not continuously followed-up. Developmental improvement in the study group (29.52%) was  6.29% more than controlled group (23.23%) and had statistical significance (p- value =0.010).

Conclusion: The development and integration nurture for a delayed developmental  child could increase developmental status and should be used as a program for delayed developmental child.

Key words: delayed developmental  child, integration nurture