Pragmatic aspects of language in children with Down syndrome: comparison of two situations

Ao estudar o desenvolvimento da linguagem de crianças com síndrome de Down são vários os autores que concordam que todos os aspectos formais, tais como, fonologia, morfossintaxe e gramática, estão alterados nesses indivíduos. Além dos aspectos formais, alguns estudos descrevem como ocorre o uso funcional da linguagem nessas crianças. Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo verificar os aspectos pragmáticos da linguagem de crianças com síndrome de Down em duas situações. Para tanto, foram realizados dois estudos. O Estudo 1 teve como objetivo descrever o perfil funcional da comunicação de crianças com síndrome de Down. Participaram desse estudo 15 crianças com síndrome de Down, com idades entre quatro e seis anos e 11 meses. Foi filmada a interação de cada criança com seu terapeuta e os dados foram analisados para traçar o perfil comunicativo de cada uma delas. A maioria das crianças ocupou espaço comunicativo semelhante ao do terapeuta e houve predomínio de atos comunicativos produzidos com função interpessoal. As funções comunicativas mais utilizadas foram reconhecimento do outro, comentário e performativo. Ocorreu variedade no modo comunicativo utilizado pelas crianças e este influenciou de forma significante a ocupação do espaço comunicativo, a produção de atos comunicativos por minuto e as funções utilizadas. O Estudo 2 teve como objetivo comparar o desempenho comunicativo dessas crianças em duas situações: interação com o terapeuta (situação A) e interação com o cuidador (situação B). Os sujeitos desse estudo foram os mesmos do Estudo 1, os quais foram filmados em brincadeira espontânea com seus cuidadores. Após análise dos dados, os resultados obtidos no Estudo 1, que compuseram a situação A, foram comparados com os resultados obtidos na situação B. Foi observado que a maioria das crianças apresentou desempenho semelhante nas duas situações. Foi possível constatar que independente do interlocutor, as crianças com SD apresentaram competência comunicativa, sendo capazes de iniciar e manter a comunicação, utilizando os modos comunicativos de forma semelhante e produzindo atos comunicativos com as mesmas funções comunicativas independente da situação. Foi observado também que o nível econômico e o grau de escolaridade do cuidador foram os fatores que mais apresentaram relação com o desempenho comunicativo da criança, tanto na situação A quanto na situação B.Regarding the study of the language development of children with Down syndrome, many authors agree that all formal aspects, such as phonology, morphosyntax and grammar, are altered in these subjects. Besides formal aspects, few studies have attempted to describe how the functional use of language occurs in these children. The present research had the aim to verify the pragmatic aspects of language in children with Down syndrome during two different interaction situations. For this purpose, two studies were carried out. Study 1 had the aim to describe the functional communication profile of children with Down syndrome. Fifteen children with Down syndrome, with ages ranging from four to six years and 11 months, participated in this study. The interaction between each child and his/her speech therapist was video recorded, and data were analyzed in order to delineate their communicative profile. Most of the children occupied the same communicative space as their therapists, and there was a prevalence of interpersonal communicative acts. The communicative functions most used were Recognition of the Other, Comment, and Performative. It was found variability in the communicative means used by the children, and this had a significant influence on the occupation of the communicative space, the number of communicative acts per minute, and the functions used. Study 2 had the aim to compare the communicative performance of these children in two situations: interaction with the speech therapist (situation A) and interaction with the caregiver (situation B). The subjects of this study were the same that participated in Study 1, who were video recorded during a spontaneous play interaction with their respective caregivers. After data analysis, the results obtained in Study 1, that constituted situation A, were compared to the results obtained in situation B. It was observed that most children had similar performances in both situations. It was found that, regardless of the interlocutor, children with Down syndrome showed communicative competence, being able to initiate and maintain communication, using communicative means similarly, and producing communicative acts with the same communicative functions. It was also observed that economic level and education level of the caregiver were factors related to the communicative performance of the children, in both situations (A and B)

Núcleos de Ensino da Unesp: artigos 2013: volume 2: metodologias de ensino e a apropriação de conhecimento pelos alunos

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP

Núcleos de Ensino da Unesp: artigos 2013: volume 2: metodologias de ensino e a apropriação de conhecimento pelos alunos

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP

The surgical safety checklist and patient outcomes after surgery: a prospective observational cohort study, systematic review and meta-analysis

© 2017 British Journal of Anaesthesia Background: The surgical safety checklist is widely used to improve the quality of perioperative care. However, clinicians continue to debate the clinical effectiveness of this tool. Methods: Prospective analysis of data from the International Surgical Outcomes Study (ISOS), an international observational study of elective in-patient surgery, accompanied by a systematic review and meta-analysis of published literature. The exposure was surgical safety checklist use. The primary outcome was in-hospital mortality and the secondary outcome was postoperative complications. In the ISOS cohort, a multivariable multi-level generalized linear model was used to test associations. To further contextualise these findings, we included the results from the ISOS cohort in a meta-analysis. Results are reported as odds ratios (OR) with 95% confidence intervals. Results: We included 44 814 patients from 497 hospitals in 27 countries in the ISOS analysis. There were 40 245 (89.8%) patients exposed to the checklist, whilst 7508 (16.8%) sustained ≥1 postoperative complications and 207 (0.5%) died before hospital discharge. Checklist exposure was associated with reduced mortality [odds ratio (OR) 0.49 (0.32–0.77); P\u3c0.01], but no difference in complication rates [OR 1.02 (0.88–1.19); P=0.75]. In a systematic review, we screened 3732 records and identified 11 eligible studies of 453 292 patients including the ISOS cohort. Checklist exposure was associated with both reduced postoperative mortality [OR 0.75 (0.62–0.92); P\u3c0.01; I2=87%] and reduced complication rates [OR 0.73 (0.61–0.88); P\u3c0.01; I2=89%). Conclusions: Patients exposed to a surgical safety checklist experience better postoperative outcomes, but this could simply reflect wider quality of care in hospitals where checklist use is routine

Critical care admission following elective surgery was not associated with survival benefit: prospective analysis of data from 27 countries

This was an investigator initiated study funded by Nestle Health Sciences through an unrestricted research grant, and by a National Institute for Health Research (UK) Professorship held by RP. The study was sponsored by Queen Mary University of London