Байкальский медицинский журнал (Dec 2023)

PATHOPHYSIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF HABILITATION AND REHABILITATION OF CHILDREN FROM CHILDREN’S HOMES WITH NEURODEVELOPMENTAL DELAY OF PSYCHOSOCIAL GENESIS

  • Anna V. Dubovaya,
  • Sergey Ya. Iaroshenko

DOI
https://doi.org/10.57256/2949-0715-2023-4-53-63
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 4
pp. 53 – 63

Abstract

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Background. Psycho-emotional stress in institutionalized children leads to significant tension in regulatory systems. Justification for using a complex of habilitation and rehabilitation measures aimed at reducing the stress factor and cre-ating conditions for “catch-up” development is an urgent problem.The aim of the study. To create and to test the effectiveness of a complex of habilitation and rehabilitation measures aimed at reducing deprivation pressure and environmental stress.Material and methods. The study included 114 children from children’s homes of Donetsk and Makeevka and 44 chil-dren from families aged 3 to 7 years. The complex of habilitation and rehabilitation measures included optimization of the daily routine, conditioning exercises, music, toy and fairy tale therapy, sessions of individual play and play in small groups of 2–3 people in a separate playroom, phototherapy with bright solar spectrum lamps, enriched sensory envi-ronment, increased physical activity, differentiated drug support with L-carnitine, glycine, hopantenic acid, magnesium and pyridoxine complex. Neuropsychic development was studied using the Denver Screening Test and the Formalized Card for the Study of Psychoneurological Functions according to I.A. Skvortsov and N.A. Ermolenko. The functions of regulatory systems were assessed by the level of cortisol and melatonin in saliva, and brain-derived neurotrophic factor in blood serum.Conclusion. A comparison of the results of assessing the parameters of neuropsychic development confirmed the effec-tiveness of the proposed complex of habilitation and rehabilitation measures. Restoration of the function of regulatory systems was confirmed by normalization of the rhythms of cortisol and melatonin synthesis, as well as by a significant (3-fold) increase in the content of brain-derived neurotrophic factor in the blood serum in children of the main group.

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