Socio demographic and clinical profile of children attending early intervention program at a tertiary care centre

INTRODUCTION: Early intervention program[EIP] aims at early detection and management of children with disabilities like birth defects, developmental delays, deficiencies, neurodevelopmental disorders etc. These causes contribute to significant childhood morbidity and mortality. Though the core cause may not be reversible, the overall quality of life of these children can be improved through early intervention and rehabilitation. Assessment of the socio demographic and clinical profile of such children attending EIP would help us to identify the morbidities and provide intervention at the earliest. AIM OF THE STUDY: to study the socio demographic and clinical profile of children with developmental delay attending early intervention program at a tertiary care centre METHODOLOGY: This is a retrospective analysis of record database of socio demographic details of children attending early intervention program at Niloufer hospital, Hyderabad. After obtaining approval from institutional ethics committee and administrative authorities of Niloufer hospital data containing sociodemographic and clinical details of children who had attended EIP from January 2017 to December 2019 is collected from record database in child psychiatry opd and entered into semi structured intake proforma. The data is analysed statistically using SPSS software version 25. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION: Data collection is being done , results will be discussed at the conference