Resumen de Infant development and parents’ perceptions associated with use of the harris infant neuromotor test

Maria Vera Lúcia Moreira Leitao Cardoso, Polyana Candeia Maia, Larissa Paiva Silva, Grazielle Roberta Freitas Da Silva, Virginia Ellen Hayes, Susan Richardson Harris

• This work aimed to identify the socio-economic, health, and educational profiles of parents, as well as their perceptions of their infants’ motor development in the first year of life. This descriptive study was carried out from November/2008 to February/2009. Participants in the study were 50 infants and 50 parents/guardians, in Fortaleza-Brazil. We used the Portuguese version of the Harris Infant Neuromotor Test (HINT) with infants ranging in age from 3 months to 11 months and 20 days. Twenty-six infants (52%) were boys. The mean age of the mothers was 24.5 years. Of the caregivers, 23 (46%) lived in stablemarital relationships, Sixteen (32%) had finished secondary education, and 27 (54%) of the families had incomes between R$ 464,72 (US$202.05) and R$ 929,44 (US$404.10). Participating caregivers were generally accurate in their own perceptions of their children’s development when compared to the numeric HINT scores assessed by nurses trained in infant development.

  DOI:https://doi.org/10.15253/2175-6783.2010011esp000014