Profile and psychomotor development of Spanish children between 3 and 6 years old
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Knowing preschooler’s psychomotor profile is required in order to design educative and therapeutic strategies that covers the population’s needs. The aim of this study was to know the psychomotor profile of Spanish preschool children. We carried an observational study with 217 preschool children (mean age=4,15 years; 52,8% were girls). EOD-B was used to evaluated psychomotor development profile. Results showed a mean of 81,8% of age-expected psychomotor development. Prevalence of psychomotor retardation within the sample was 4%. Psychomotor areas with more retardation were affectivity (15,6%), manual motricity (10,6%), and gross motricity (7,3%). Girls showed better psychomotor development and a lower psychomotor retardation prevalence than boys (p<0,01; p<0,05). Girls also showed less retardation on manual motricity and cognitive abilities than boys (p<0,01; p<0,05). This study offers new evidence of Spanish preschool children psychomotor development characteristics. Implications and new educative and therapeutic actuation lines are discussed.
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