The purpose of this study was to verify the relationship between the
characteristics of play, biopsychosocial factors and the neuropsychomotor
development of children at a Child Education Unit in Belém. This is a longitudinal,
descriptiveexploratory, nature observational and quantitative data approach.
Twentythree children of both sexes, aged between 3 and 4 years old, enrolled in the
Maternal II group of a UEI linked to the Municipal Department of Education of Belém PA, in the year 2017, participated in the research. To trace the biopsychosocial
profile of children and their families, the Child Characteristics Questionnaire was
applied; to record the characteristics of children's play at school, the Play
Observation Protocol was used, and for the evaluation of neuropsychomotor
development the Denver Developmental Screening Test II was used. The study
revealed that of the 23 children evaluated, 56.5% had a suspected developmental
delay and 43.5% had normal development, in which the highest percentage of
suspected delays were in the language domain (52.2%). The biopsychosocial
variables that presented a statistically significant relationship with the Denver II
outcome according to the Chisquare test were: breastfeeding time (p = 0.04),
mother's profession (p = 0.04), and family income (p = 0.08). The play variables that
were statistically significant and marginally significant from the MannWhitney U test
were: group interaction (p = 0.04), without toys (p = 0.07), play proposed by the
subject and not playexploration. The study sought to give greater visibility to the
occupation of playing and to the performance of Occupational Therapy in the
developmental surveillance in the school context, besides alerting to the need to
identify early possible delays and / or risk factors in the development of children
enrolled in crèches or public preschools, thus reducing the risks to which they are
exposed, aiming to contribute to the incentive to the implementation of public policies
in this context.
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