La regulación emocional y su relación con el agotamiento físico de niños y niñas de 6 a 11 años de edad con discapacidad intelectual leve durante las sesiones de fisioterapia en los centros de atención a las discapacidades de la Unidad Patronato Municipal San José de la ciudad de Quito

Abstract

Children with disabilities require constant support from their parents and their representatives, also as different experts so they can guarantee the effective development skills, in consequence, the children can improve their life quality together with their family's life quality. One of the most important therapy areas for intellectual disabled children is the physiotherapy care; however, these encounters during the therapy can bring difficulties due to the lack of motivation from tired children; so in the way we can analyze this situation, this investigation had the objective of studying the relation between the emotional regulation and physical exhaustion in mild intellectual disabled children during the physiotherapy session at the Disabilities Center Care on Unidad Patronato Municipal San José, in the city of Quito. . In the present investigation it was used a proactive sample due to the groups of intellectual disabled children that had similar characteristics. That's why during the investigation we involved the quantitative methodological approach so it can bring results from the statistic correlation existing by the quadrant chi; the tools that were used for data collecting is DERS Scale; the one that allowed the emotional regulation data; for the physical exhaustion it was used the Borg's fatigue indicator. The results showed that 52,5% of children have a medium level of emotional regulation and high levels of physical exhaustion during the care physiotherapy sessions. In conclusion, it was proved that there is not a significant relation between the emotional regulation and the physical exhaustion, but about this last one, there was a prevalence in the male gender in comparison to the female, that is to say that the male children demonstrate more exhaustion over female children.