Growth and Development of Children with Microcephaly Associated with Congenital Zika Virus Syndrome in Brazil

Thaís Lorena Barbosa de França, Wilton Rodrigues Medeiros, Nilba Lima de Souza, Egmar Longo, Silvana Alves Pereira, Thamyris Barbosa de Oliveira França and Klayton Galante Sousa
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Thaís Lorena Barbosa de França: Collective Health PostGraduate Program, Faculty of Health Sciences of Trairi, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Santa Cruz 59200-000, Brazil
Wilton Rodrigues Medeiros: Collective Health PostGraduate Program, Faculty of Health Sciences of Trairi, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Santa Cruz 59200-000, Brazil
Nilba Lima de Souza: Nursing Graduate Program, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal 59072-970, Brazil
Egmar Longo: Collective Health PostGraduate Program, Faculty of Health Sciences of Trairi, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Santa Cruz 59200-000, Brazil
Silvana Alves Pereira: Collective Health PostGraduate Program, Faculty of Health Sciences of Trairi, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Santa Cruz 59200-000, Brazil
Thamyris Barbosa de Oliveira França: City Hall of Touros, Department of Health, Primary Health Care, Touros 59584-000, Brazil
Klayton Galante Sousa: Collective Health PostGraduate Program, Faculty of Health Sciences of Trairi, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Santa Cruz 59200-000, Brazil

IJERPH, 2018, vol. 15, issue 9, 1-11

Abstract: The outbreak of Zika virus in Latin America in the period 2015–2016 has caused a sudden increase in the number of severe manifestations and reports of congenital changes in newborns in Brazil. This is the first study that evaluated and compared the growth and cognitive and motor development of children with microcephaly due to Congenital Zika Virus Syndrome (CZS) in relation to typical children. It was an observational, analytical, cross-sectional study with 8 children with CZS and 16 typical children, with a mean age of 20.5 months (±2.1), in a region of northeastern Brazil. Considering the mean, children with CZS presented extremely low performance in the motor domain and in the cognitive development domain, whereas typical children presented average performance in the cognitive and motor development domains. Children with CZS presented a mean growth rate (head circumference and weight) lower than typical children. Therefore, children with CZS are at risk for growth retardation and development compared to typical children.

Keywords: microcephaly; zika virus; child development; global health; public health; public health surveillance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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