scholarly journals The prevalence of mental retardation by gender, age, and age of diagnosis at Nobel Medical College, Biratnagar

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-81
Author(s):  
Naba Raj Koirala ◽  
Ajoy Kumar Das ◽  
Santosh Kumar Bhagat
Keyword(s):  
Mental Retardation ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Mentally Retarded ◽  
Medical Problems ◽  
Medical College ◽  
Icd 10 ◽  
Age Of Diagnosis ◽  
Iq Scores ◽  
Mentally Retarded Children ◽  
One Year

Objectives: To evaluate the prevalence of mental retardation by gender and age of diagnosis at Nobel Medical College, Biratnagar. Methods: The data of all mentally retarded children recorded within a period of one year from 01st May 2011 to 30th April 2012 is analyzed retrospectively. Age, gender, IQ scores, the age of diagnosis, and their living place were evaluated. Results and conclusion: A total number 103 children attended the Psychiatric Out-patient Department of Nobel medical College and Teaching Hospital over the study period of one year. Out of all those 103 children, 67 children were with normal IQ scores, 7 with coexistence of epilepsy and other medical problems, and 3 children with incomplete case records, thus they were excluded from the study, and the subjects for further study was constituted by just 26 cases, who fulfilled the diagnostic criteria for Mental Retardation according to ICD-10. The overall prevalence of mental retardation in our study was 25% and the distribution of mental retardation amongst all those 26 cases were as follows: 2 cases (8%) were profound, 3 severe (12%), 7 (27%) were moderate and 9 (35%) mild, and 5 (19%) were borderline. Out of all those 26 mentally retarded children 11 were male (42%) and 15 (58%) were female, and of these cases, 07 were living in urban, and 19 in rural areas. Most of our cases were diagnosed between 6-10 years of age.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/jonmc.v1i2.7304 Journal of Nobel Medical College (2012), Vol.1 No.2 p.77-81

ATTITUDE STUDY OF PARENTS OF MENTALLY RETARDED CHILDREN

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1959 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 819-821
Author(s):  
Betty V. Graliker ◽  
Arthur H. Parmelee ◽  
Richard Koch
Keyword(s):  
Mental Retardation ◽  
Mentally Retarded ◽  
Diagnostic Study ◽  
Medical Problems ◽  
Follow Up Care ◽  
Future Care ◽  
Mentally Retarded Children

Initial reactions and concerns of parents to a diagnosis of mental retardation in their child are recorded in 67 families. The cause of the retardation and rejection of the child were the two chief areas of subjective concern. Other reactions were rejection of the diagnosis and solicitude for other medical problems of the child. Even after complete diagnostic study, rejection of the diagnosis of retardation occurred in one third of these families. Our data suggest that initial counseling of parents of retarded children should be centered primarily on a discussion of diagnosis, etiology, and immediate problems. Subsequent counseling should be directed toward the problems of future care. The importance of sympathetic follow-up care by the physician is emphasized.

ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHIC AND ETIOLOGIC FINDINGS IN MENTAL RETARDATION

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1963 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 478-485
Author(s):  
Gerald D. LaVeck ◽  
Felix de la Cruz
Keyword(s):  
Mental Retardation ◽  
Metabolic Disorders ◽  
Mentally Retarded ◽  
Motor Dysfunction ◽  
Diagnostic Aid ◽  
Mentally Retarded Children ◽  
Mental Subnormality ◽  
Etiologic Diagnosis

A series of 578 institutionalized mentally retarded patients was evaluated by a multi-discipline approach in order to establish a presumptive etiologic diagnosis. Abnormal electroencephalographic findings were found to be related to the age of the patient, the severity of retardation, and the presence of seizures or motor dysfunction. In this series 65.9% had abnormal tracings, and the most frequent abnormality was a focal change in 18.7%. However, focal abnormalities correlated with seizures and motor dysfunction so that no specific electroencephalographic aberration was characteristic of mental subnormality. Abnormal tracings were most frequent in nonseizure patients when subnormality was caused by intoxication, new growths, metabolic disorders, infectious processes, trauma, and encephalopathy of unknown cause in decreasing order of frequency. Abnormalities were seen in 36.4% of "cultural-familial" defectives and those whose intellectual defect was presumably due to psychologic factors. It is believed that electroencephalography is a valuable diagnostic aid in the evaluation of mentally retarded children.

scholarly journals A Cross Sectional Descriptive Study of Etiology and Clinical Pattern of Liver Abscess : 50 Cases

2013 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 44-48
Author(s):  
Joyabrata Das ◽  
Subash Majumdar ◽  
Subrata Das ◽  
Saiem Nurul Anwar ◽  
Hossain Ahmed ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Features ◽  
Liver Abscess ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Medical College ◽  
Abdominal Abscesses ◽  
One Year ◽  
The Right

Background: The liver is the organ most subjected to the development of abscesses and made up 48 % of all visceral abscesses' and 7% of all intra abdominal abscesses. Liver abscess should be suspected when there is a combination of fever, leucocytosis, constitutional symptoms, and pain in the right upper quadrant, and tenderness over the liver or right lower rib cage. The liver is affected by a number of local and disseminated infections; their frequency and types vary considerably around the world. Parasitic disorders are more prevalent in developing countries. Methods: It was a cross-sectional descriptive study. The cases were taken from the admitted patients of Medicine unit of SMCH, Chittagong. The study was conducted over a period of one year with a sample size of 50 patients and sample was taken by purposive sampling. Results: Among 50 patients 40 (80%) were diagnosed as ALA and 10 (20%) were diagnosed as PLA. ALA cases are common in 21-30 years age group & PLA cases are more common in >50 years of age group. Majority of the cases were from rural area. Common clinical features were fever, abdominal pain, nausea and tender hepatomegaly. Diarrhea was present on admission in 7 (15.9%) patients of ALA. Anaemia was common in both but polymorphonuclear leucocytosis was moderate to severe in PLA. Microscopic examination of stool samples for E. Histolytica trophozoites was positive in 3 (7.5%) cases and cysts in 4(10%) cases. Nine patients had right sided pleural effusion. Conclusions: Clinical features are common in both ALA and PLA. Liver abscesses are more common in men and more prevalent in rural areas. ALA more commonly occurs in 21-30 years age group but can occur at any age. Pyogenic abscess is more common in older age group (>50 years) and E. Coli is the commonest organism. Chattagram Maa-O-Shishu Hospital Medical College Journal Volume 12, Issue 3, September 2013: 44-48

scholarly journals ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL INTERACTION OF MENTALLY RETARDED CHILDREN

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 17-21
Author(s):  
Yudhie Suchyadi ◽  
Yulia Ambarsari ◽  
Elly Sukmanasa
Keyword(s):  
Mental Retardation ◽  
Social Interaction ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Research Result ◽  
Mentally Retarded ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Social Contacts ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Mentally Retarded Children ◽  
The Way

Differences in the characteritics of children with special needs will require the ability of teachers to combine various abilities and talents of each child, such as mentally retarded children who need communication like children in general. His developmental delays are often excluded from his playing enviranment, thus the need for good social interaction with mentally retarded children. Based on these problems, a study was conducted to describe the findings of social interaction in mentally retarded children in extraordinary school Mentari Kita. The research is a descriptive analysis with qualitative research approach. Technique of data analysis was performed with data reduction stage, the presentation of data, and verification (conclusions). Researchers used the test of credibility, transferabilitas, dependabilitas, and konfirmabilitas to obtain the validity of the data. The result showed that the way social interaction with mental retardation children how do social contacts and communication as being able to respond when invited to communicate but it should be repeated over and over,the subject has a weakness in the concentration of so when invited to talk hard staring at your opponents interlocutor. When did the subject communication using language that sounds stilted. Social contact subject well againts his peers is characterized by sensitivity to her friends when in distress, want to help his friend like get a pencil, and divide the food per day taken by subject. Based on the above research result it can be concluded that the way the social interactions of the child with mental retardation how do social contacts and communication in accordance with the terms of the occurrence of social interaction. Keywords: Social Interaction, Mental Retardation

Psychiatric Disorders in Mildly and Severely Mentally Retarded Urban Children and Adolescents: Epidemiological Aspects

1986 ◽  
Vol 149 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Gillberg ◽  
Eva Persson ◽  
Marianne Grufman ◽  
Ulla Themnér
Keyword(s):  
Mental Retardation ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Psychiatric Disorders ◽  
Down's Syndrome ◽  
Down’S Syndrome ◽  
Mentally Retarded ◽  
Urban Children ◽  
Psychiatric Condition ◽  
Child Population ◽  
Mentally Retarded Children

A total of 149 children aged 13–17 years were examined. 83 were mildly and 66 severely mentally retarded. These children, especially the severely retarded ones, are representative of all mentally retarded children born in 1966–1970 and living in Göteborg, Sweden. 64% of the severely mentally retarded and 57% of the mildly mentally retarded children were suffering from a handicapping psychiatric condition. Autism-like ‘psychotic behaviour’ was common in the severely retarded. 0.2% of the total child population aged 13–17 years suffering from the combination of mental retardation and ‘psychotic behaviour’. Epilepsy was associated with psychiatric abnormality, but Down's syndrome was generally not so associated.

Comparison of Idiom Comprehension of Normal Children and Children With Mental Retardation

1991 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 812-819 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen K. Ezell ◽  
Howard Goldstein
Keyword(s):  
Mental Retardation ◽  
Mentally Retarded ◽  
High Accuracy ◽  
Receptive Vocabulary ◽  
Mild Mental Retardation ◽  
Normal Children ◽  
Idiom Comprehension ◽  
Picture Stimuli ◽  
Mentally Retarded Children ◽  
Better Than

This study compared the comprehension of 20 idioms of normal children with children exhibiting mild mental retardation. Sixty-six children comprised three groups: normal 9-year-olds, 9-year-old children with mild mental retardation, and younger normal children matched with the mentally retarded children by receptive vocabulary age. The assessment included both literal and idiomatic contexts with accompanying picture stimuli. The three groups demonstrated high accuracy with the literal contexts. On the idiomatic contexts, the normal children comprehended significantly more idioms than the children with mental retardation, and the mentally retarded children performed significantly better than the younger normal children.

scholarly journals ANALISIS KEMAMPUAN INTELEKTUAL ANAK TUNAGRAHITA RINGAN DI SD NEGERI DEMAKIJO 2

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-75
Author(s):  
Avi Yanni ◽  
Izzatin Kamala ◽  
Muhammad Shaleh Assingkily ◽  
Rahmawati Rahmawati
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Mental Retardation ◽  
Mentally Retarded ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Mild Mental Retardation ◽  
Research Subjects ◽  
Intelligence Scale ◽  
Intellectual Abilities ◽  
Inclusive Schools ◽  
Mentally Retarded Children

This study aims to determine (1) intellectual abilities of mentally retarded children in Demakijo State Elementary School (SD) 2 inclusive schools, (2) Obstacles faced by teachers when teaching at Demaijo State Elementary School 2, (3) Teachers' efforts in dealing with intellectual abilities of mentally retarded children in Demakijo State Elementary School 2. The type of approach used in this study is qualitative research with a survey method. Data collection techniques used were through observation and interviews with research subjects one mild retarded grade 1 student at Demakijo State Elementary School 2. The results of the intelligence test with the Wechsler Intelligence Scale For Children (WISC) obtained the results obtained scores of 57 Verbal IQ scores included in the IQ score of 57 Mental Retardation category. IQ Performance Score 55 included in the Mental Retardation category. With the total IQ obtained is 55 included in mental retardation. Based on the analysis results contained in the table in general, mild mental retardation children are difficult to manage and do not do the work. Efforts made by teachers when experiencing difficulties in understanding the lessons conveyed by children with mild mental retardation AD is to provide personal guidance, ask questions and answer, and several times be assertive. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui (1) kemampuan intelektual anak tunagrahita di sekolah inklusi Sekolah Dasar (SD) Negeri Demakijo 2, (2) Hambatan yang dihadapi guru ketika mengajar di SD Negeri Demaijo 2, (3) Upaya guru dalam menangani kemampuan intelektual anak tunagrahita di SD Negeri Demakijo 2. Jenis pendekatan yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah penelitian kualitataif dengan metode penelitian adalah metode survei. Teknik pengumpulan data yang digunakanya itu melalui observasi dan wawancara dengan subjek penelitian satu anak tunagrahita ringan kelas 1 SD Negeri Demakijo 2. Hasil dari tes intelegensi dengan Wechsler Intelligence Scale For Children (WISC) mendapatkan hasil skor yang didapatkan yaitu skor IQ Verbal 57 yang termasuk dalam kategori Retardasi Mental. Skor IQ Performance 55 yang termasuk dalam kategori Retardasi Mental. Dengan jumlah IQ total yang didapatkanya itu 55 termasuk dalam Retardasi mental.  Berdasarkan hasil analisis yang terdapat pada tabel secara umum anak tunagrahita ringan susah diatur dan tidak mengerjakan tugas. Upaya yang dilakukan guru ketika mengalami kesulitan dalam memahamkan pelajaran yang disampaikan anak tunagrahita ringan AD ialah dengan memberikan bimbingan pribadi, melakukan tanyajawab, serta beberapa kali bersikap tegas.

scholarly journals CASE STUDY OF MEDIUM LEVELS OF CHILDREN OF MIDDLE LEVELS OF SMPKH YDKW 01 TANGERANG CLASS VII ACADEMIC YEAR 2020/2021 IN ADMINISTRATION AND REDUCTION OPERATIONS WITH BRUNER THEORY

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiesa Rahma Azzura
Keyword(s):  
Mental Retardation ◽  
Mentally Retarded ◽  
Research Subjects ◽  
Case Study Method ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Moderate Mental Retardation ◽  
Mentally Retarded Children ◽  
Academic Year

Without us realizing that mathematics is not spared in our daily lives, without mathematics everyone will find it difficult to live life. This study aims to find out how to add and subtract moderately mentally retarded children based on symbols. The type of research carried out by the researcher is qualitative with the case study method, so that the research subjects are 4 mentally retarded children who are in class VII SMPK YDKW 01 Tangerang. The results of the study are in the form of a description that describes how to add and subtract operations with symbols in Bruner's theory, from the results of research in the field, children with moderate mental retardation do not meet the minimum completeness criteria, only 25% are able to meet the minimum completeness criteria.

scholarly journals Pattern and cost of physical injury treatment in a rural community

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 594-597
Author(s):  
Ankeeta Menona Jacob
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Injury Rate ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Lower Limbs ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Medical College ◽  
Physical Injuries ◽  
Icd 10 ◽  
Chi Square Test

The global burden of injuries in 2017 showed that 57.2 million people were affected. The study aimed to assess the patterns of injuries and costs related to the treatment of injuries. Injury in rural areas tends to be under-reported, which hinders estimation of the true prevalence of physical injuries for implementing injury prevention strategies at the community level. A community-based, cross-sectional study was conducted in the field practice area of a private medical college from May to August 2019. Physical injuries sustained by 1723 individuals over three months were collected and were classified based on ICD-10. Descriptive data were expressed using frequencies and percentages and median (Interquartile Range). Independent T-test, Mann Whitney U test, Chi-square test was used to determine statistical differences between the variables. The total number of injuries recorded was 105(6.9%) among 1723 individuals. The most common injuries were superficial injuries in 77 (70.0%), of which 98(89.1%), of which the upper 55(50.0%) limb was more affected than lower limbs 43(39.1%). The overall 3-month injury rate was 60.94(49.6-72.23) per 1000 persons. The median amount of money spent on the treatment of injuries was INR 225.0(50.0-1000.0).

Reproductive Rates in Families of Children with Idiopathic Mental Retardation

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 675-677
Author(s):  
ELENI BACOLA
Keyword(s):  
Mental Retardation ◽  
Normal Population ◽  
Mentally Retarded ◽  
Control Groups ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Reproductive Rates ◽  
Mentally Retarded Children ◽  
And Control ◽  
Idiopathic Mental Retardation

Analysis was made of pregnancy records in families of 28 normal and 28 mentally retarded children. The pregnancy records of mothers, maternal aunts, and grandmothers of the retarded population were compared to the records of the normal population. There were no significant differences in the mean reproductive rates between the retarded and control groups.

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