Abstract

GUERRA VALLEJO, Odilia; PEREZ RODRIGUEZ, Lourdes; FERRER HERRERA, Ismael  and  ALVAREZ AGUILERA, Sonia. Comportamiento del proceso de adaptación en un círculo infantil. Rev Cubana Med Gen Integr [online]. 2000, vol.16, n.1, pp. 62-67. ISSN 1561-3038.

A descriptive efficacy study was conducted at the " XX Aniversario" Day Care Center of the " Ignacio Agramonte" Polyclinic, in the municipality of Camagüey, from September to December, 1993. 23 children that started the process of adaptation were studied to know their behaviour. Variables on the incidences of planning, making, control and attention and guidance of parents, as well as the causes of the dificulties and the measures taken were included. 2-year-old children ( 56. 5 %) predominated among the studied children. 65. 2 % were males, 100 % had parents with a good economic level, 93 % had parents with an adequate educational level and 60. 8 % were from families integrates into society. The use of pacifier (30.4 %) and the alteration of the nutritional habits ( 21. 7 %) prevailed among the negative habits, whereas the chronic respiratory diseases ( 47.7 %) and the speech disorders ( 43.4 %) predominated among the personal pathological histories. Finally, the difficulties found were: inadequate planning an making of the process, negative repercussion of acute respiratory infections and the inappropiate management by the family, and the frequent difficulties presented by children to adapt themselves to the day care center

Keywords : CHILD DAY CARE CENTERS; CHILD BEHAVIOR; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; HABITS.

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