A METHOD FOR DIAGNOSING PSYCHO-MOTOR AND BEHAVIORAL DISORDERS WITH METHOD BAYLEY IN CHILDREN BORN PREMATURELY IN THE EARLY CHILDHOOD PERIOD

Abstract

Aim. Diagnosis of psychomotor and behavioral disorders in prematurely born and low-weight infants for further correction in early childhood.

Material and methods. The study included 90 children (the main group) who were born prematurely. The control group consisted of 30 practically healthy full-term infants. All children were treated in the Neonatal Pathology Department of the 1st City Clinical Children's Hospital and in the City Perinatal Center, and the children were examined on an outpatient basis at Family Polyclinic No. 17 in Tashkent in 2021-2022.

Results. In this article, we have enlightened the psycho-motor development of children born prematurely with extremely low, very low and low body weight in early childhood. The research was conducted using the Bailey test, which evaluates the mental, motor, and behavioral development of young children. We evaluated the psycho-motor and behavioral development of 90 premature infants in dynamics, from 6 months of corrected age to 3 years. The results of the study showed the specific age lag of premature infants from their peers of a similar age born full-term, in different areas of development. The lag of premature infants in the third year of life in motor development compared to the control group showed the following results: children born with extremely low body weight lagged by an average of 4.3 ± 1.48* months, children with very low body weight by 4.6 ± 0.41* months and children with low body weight by 3.1 ± 0.46 months at the corrected age. And also, the lag in mental development compared to the control group showed the following results: children born with extremely low body weight lagged by an average of 4.8 ± 1.08* months, children with very low body weight by 4.2 ± 0.62* months and children with low body weight by 3.3 ± 0.53 months at the corrected age.

Conclusion. It was found that the results obtained using the Bailey scale give a detailed idea of the child's psychomotor state and may indicate the occurrence of possible problems in psychomotor development and the need for careful dynamic monitoring of premature infants.