Effects of a comprehensive pedagogical strategy to promote attention in children
Keywords:
comprehensive pedagogical strategy, attention, childrenAbstract
Introduction: Attention is the state of observation and alert that allows awareness of what happened in the environment, and constitutes an integral direction of pedagogical work, with emphasis in infants and children, according to individual particularities.
Objective: To assess the effects of a comprehensive pedagogical strategy to promote attention in children.
Methods: Descriptive-explanatory, correlational research. 21 male children aged 6-7 years diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder are studied. A comprehensive pedagogical strategy was implemented for six-month to assess its effects.
Results: A notable improvements is evident in the results after the intervention, especially in the reduction of omissions and commissions (p=0.001953; p=0.003906, respectively), reaction time (p=0.009766), variability (p=0.009766), perceptual sensitivity (p=0.001953), and perseveration index (p=0.003906).
Conclusions: The intervention to improve attention and inhibitory control in the children was effective. Errors are reduced and reaction time improves, which shows that the comprehensive pedagogical strategy can have positive effects on the attention span in children. It is recommended to prospectively expand the research to the female sex and carry out an experimental research in the short term, to evaluate the effects in independent groups with different interventions.
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