Estudio comparativo del manejo de las escalas de valoración del desarrollo psicomotor del niño, utilizadas por fisioterapeutas de la región de Lisboa y Vale do Tejo (Portugal) y fisioterapeutas extremeños

The primary objective of our study is to identify as they are the forms and the models of exploration (validated or not validated scales) more used by physiotherapists of our sample that works or that they have worked throughout their professional race, with children with ages between 0-5 years with alterations of the psicomotor development and thus to make a comparison of both samples.The study is of cross-sectional descriptive type and it was made during the months of May to November of year 2002. The sample that conform the study is compound of two subsamples: 36 physiotherapists of the Region of Lisbon and Vale do Tejo (Portugal) and the other by 23 physiotherapists of Extremadura (Cáceres and Badajoz) that they have by daily activity the treatment of children with alterations of the psicomotor development, with ages between 0-5 years. The instrument used for the collection of data was a questionnaire, made up of closed, opened questions and of multiple answer, using for a this last Likert scale. The 87 % of physiotherapists of Extremadura know the scale Bobath, a 78 % the Factorial Clinical Valuation of M. Le Métayer and % the valuation according to Vojta. The use of these scales is a 22 % Bobath, 26 % M. Le Métayer and 2% Vojta. On the other hand, 92 % of physiotherapists of the Portuguese sample know the scale Bobath always and use this like valuation protocol a 50%, being the scales of M. Le Métayer and Vojta practically strangers.The most well-known scales validated internationally but nothig used in Spain and Portugal is Gross Motor Function Measure (GMFM) being other scales like PFMAI (Posture Scale and Motor Fine Assessment of Infants) and the Pediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory (PEDI) great strangers for physiotherapists who conform the sample of the study.