Fatores associados a possíveis alterações no desenvolvimento de crianças acompanhadas pelo Programa Criança Feliz na pandemia.

Abstract

The pandemic of the new coronavirus or SARS-CoV-2, responsible for the acute and rapidly evolving infection called COVID-19, restricted the population's access to essential services for quality of life, including the continuity of the actions of the Happy Child Program. This brought repercussions and losses for children in early childhood, a period of paramount importance for

the development of fundamental structures and skills. COVID-19 pandemic. This is a cross- sectional survey, carried out at the Social Assistance Reference Center of a municipality in

Curimataú Paraibano, families of children up to 36 months of age in social vulnerability, registered in the Happy Child program. For data collection, a questionnaire containing sociodemographic, perinatal and child development data was used; analyzed statistically, adopting a confidence interval of 95% and a significance level of p <0.05. The factors associated with alertness for development, with statistical significance, were the time the child attends daycare (p= 0.013), monthly family income (p= 0.005) and having a high-risk pregnancy (p= 0.014). The results point to the need for strategies and interventions aimed at reducing factors that are negatively related to child development and contributing to the integrality of this process with the child health care network.