Prevalencia de hiperactividad y factores asociados en escolares Cuenca, 2011

Abstract

Objectives: To determine the prevalence and the factors associated with hyperactivity in scholars of Cuenca 2011.

Methodology: Transversal study of 1000 students between the ages of 5 and 12 in the urban schools of Cuenca, (2011), was held through systematic random sampling. The diagnosis was based on the criterion of the DSM IV through tests directed towards their parents or representatives. The cause of prevalence (RP) with IC 95%, and ‘Chi-cuadrado’, were used to find an association between overcrowding, migration of parents, family functionality, childhood abuse, and family alcoholism, consumption of alcohol and tobacco as well as HTA during pregnancy and perinatal hipnoxia, as factors associated with hyperactivity.

Results: The prevalence of hyperactivity found reached 10.6%. The group with highest hyperactivity was found to be between the ages of 6 and 8 years old, females were more affected, also children who live in urban areas, who showed factors such as: family dysfunction, overcrowding, domestic usage of alcohol, childhood abuse, background or perinatal hypoxia, and alcohol consumption and HTA during pregnancy, showed prevalence of hyperactivity.

Conclusion: There were proven risk factors to show hyperactivity, family dysfunction (RP 3.13), childhood abuse (RP 4.3), perinatal hypoxia (RP 2.01), alcoholism (RP 2.05)