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Introduction: Motor development process is vital for the development of children and lasts their entire lifetime. Mentallyretarded children have some incompetency with their motor developmental process as with other developmental processes.Motor development improves with physical development and growth.Aim: The aim of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness of play activity on fine motor skills (FMS) among mentally retarded children.Materials and Methods: True experimental pre-test–post-test control group design was used. The study was conducted in theInstitute for Mentally Retarded children. 30 in each (experimental and control) group selected by simple random sampling. MadrasDevelopmental Programming System – behavioral scale used to assess the FMS. Play activity was given to the experimentalgroup, 30 min for 15 days. Post-test was conducted after 5 weeks.Results: Significant improvement noted in fine motor skills in experimental group. Association between FMS and type ofdelivery was significant at P < 0.042.Conclusion: Play activity was effective in improving the FMS among mentally retarded children.
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Introducción: los niños retrasados mentales presentan un desarrollo anormal de los procesos psíquicos, fundamentalmente los cognitivos superiores, los procesos voluntarios de la memoria, el pensamiento lógico verbal, y el lenguaje entre otros, todos como consecuencia de una lesión orgánica cerebral. Objetivo: para dar curso a la investigación se trazó como objetivo evaluar la aplicación de una intervención educativa con temas relacionados con higiene bucal, prevención y caries dental a niños con el propósito de mejorar el estado de salud bucal de los mismos, dadas por supuesto por sus características especiales. Materiales y métodos: para cumplimentar la investigación se evaluó la efectividad de la intervención propuesta en los niños retrasados mentales de 5 a 12 años de edad que pertenecen a esta área de salud sumando un total de 23 niños. Resultados: de los niños estudiados el mayor porciento eran del sexo masculino y tenían entre 8 y 10 años de edad; antes de la intervención educativa existía un gran numero de niños que tenían una higiene bucal inadecuada, desconocían los factores de riesgo de la caries dental y los métodos sobre prevención en Estomatología; mientras que después de aplicada la intervención mejoraron notablemente en estos aspectos. Conclusiones: según los resultados obtenidos se puede concluir que esta estrategia educativa preventiva permitió dar respuesta a los principales problemas identificados y alcanzar un mayor nivel de salud bucal en los niños con retraso mental en la etapa escolar al prevenir la formación de caries dental en dientes temporales y permanentes, pues al finalizar la intervención los resultados fueron evaluados de buenos (AU).
Introduction: children with mental retardation have an abnormal development of the psychical processes, mainly the superior cognitive ones, the voluntary processes of the memory, the logic verbal thought and language, among others, all of them as the result of a brain organic lesion. Objective: the aim of the research was evaluating the application of an educative intervention with themes related with oral hygiene, prevention and dental caries in children with the purpose of improving their oral health status, given the special characteristics of them. Materials and Methods: it was evaluated the effectiveness of the proposed intervention in children with mental retardation aged 5-12 years who belong to this health area, being 23 children in total. Results: the higher percent of the studied children were male, aged 8 and 10 years; before the educative intervention a great number of children had an inadequate oral hygiene, did not know dental caries risk factors and the preventive methods in Odontology, while after applying the intervention these aspects remarkably improved. Conclusions: according to the obtained results it could be concluded that this educative preventive strategy allowed answering to the main identified problems and reaching a higher level of oral health in children with mental retardation in scholar age, because it prevented the oral caries formation in deciduous and permanent teeth, since at the end of the intervention the achieved results were evaluated as good (AU).
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Humans , Male , Female , Child, Preschool , Child , Early Intervention, Educational/methods , Early Intervention, Educational/standards , Disabled Children/education , Dental Caries , Oral Hygiene/education , Oral Hygiene/methods , Oral Health , Risk FactorsABSTRACT
@#Table tennis as an exercise can meet the basic principles for mentally retarded children rehabilitation. Some empirical data showed that it is effective on varying degrees of mentally retardation. In addition, it is valuable in some other aspect, such as politics, economy, culture, and education.