COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE PARTICIPATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN WITH AND WITHOUT DISABILITIES IN THE HOME ENVIRONMENT
Child. Home environment. Social participation
INTRODUCTION: Participation is defined as “involvement in life situations”. In young children, it can be measured using the Participation and Environment Measure – Young Children (YC-PEM), which takes into account frequency, involvement, desire for change, and environmental factors. However, children with disabilities have lower levels of participation when compared to typical children, which may be due to the greater number of barriers encountered by them, which may, for example, be due to unfavorable socioeconomic factors. OBJECTIVE: To compare the level of participation in children with and without disabilities, relating it to the environmental factors to which these children are subjected. METHODS: Crosssectional, prospective and descriptive study in which the sample composed of those responsible for young children, aged between 0 and 5 years and 11 months, with and without disabilities, must respond to the Instrument Participation and Environment Measure - Young Children (YC -PEM). The YC-PEM assesses participation, desire for change and environmental factors in activities carried out in the 'home', 'school', and 'community' environments. This study, however, will be restricted to the 'home' environment. The data will be analyzed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) software, version 21, through descriptive analysis, presenting means, medians, standard deviations, and frequency distributions. Differences between groups will be analyzed using the Mann-Whitney test. For correlations, the Spearman Correlation Test is adopted. The statistical difference will be considered if p<0.05 and a confidence interval (CI) of 95%. Study approved under registration CAEE: 79628017.0.0000.5568. EXPECTED RESULTS: It is expected to observe and characterize relationships between environmental factors and the participation of typical and atypical children in the sample, as well as to investigate possible relationships between socioeconomic factors and barriers/facilitators at home.