Prevalência dos transtornos do neurodesenvolvimento: uma revisão sistemática

Abstract

Child neurodevelopmental disorders are neurological disorders that affect attention, memory, perception, language and social interaction. This study aims to review, describe and analyze the main articles published in the last five years about the prevalence of neurodevelopmental disorders, with special emphasis on studies that made ethnic-racial stratification of the prevalence of these disorders. The methodological quality of studies published with the PEDro scale will also be analyzed. A bibliographic review was carried out in a systematic review model, using the Pubmed database with three descriptors: children and neurodevelopmental disorder and prevalence. In addition to these descriptors, a racial descriptor (black) was included, however, no article was found that referred to the subject. A total of 2436 studies were found, of which 19 were related to the proposed discussion of this study, which highlights the need for the development of research related to this subject. The studies discuss the prevalence of Neurodevelopmental disorders and they showed a prevalence varying amongsix to17 of every 100 children. It was possible to show with the PEDro scale that many of the studies have a fragile methodology denoting the need for more robust research, as well as the difficulty of reaching one of the proposed objectives due to the scarcity of studies with ethnic-racial cuts.