Plenary Lecture

Statistical Analysis of Psychomotor Therapy in Children with Attention Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder

Professor Luís M. Grilo
Departamento de Matemática e Física
Instituto Politécnico de Tomar
Quinta do Contador – Estrada da Serra, 2300-313, Tomar
Centro de Matemática e Aplicações da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (CMA-UNL) Portugal
E-mail: lgrilo@ipt.pt

Abstract: One of the most common behavioural disorders in school age children, which has registered a high increase of the prevalence rate in the last decade is Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) – a neurological condition that involves problems with inattention and hyperactivity-impulsivity that are developmentally inconsistent with the age of the child. ADHD has much comorbidity affecting the child’s life in every domain with a negative influence in the prognosis of this condition. Psychomotor deficits are responsible for many of the learning disabilities of these children. A sample of children with the diagnosis of ADHD, under psychomotor therapy, was submitted to a Psychomotor Battery (PMB) in order to characterize the population followed in the Department of Child Psychiatry of the Centro Hospitalar Cova da Beira (in Portugal). Nonparametric tests and nonparametric approach of graphical techniques were applied to the data, collected at baseline and at the end of the intervention, and the main result shows that the psychomotor profile has a statistical significant improvement after psychomotor therapy (supported by both total scores of PMB and some particular psychomotor factors).

Brief Biography of the Speaker: Luis Miguel Grilo (PhD in Mathematics and Statistics, Technical University of Lisbon, 2006) is currently Adjunct Professor and Director of the Department of Mathematics and Physics, as well as Director of Surveys and Statistical Studies Center of the Polytechnic Institute of Tomar (IPT) and of a Post Graduation in Computational Data Analysis. As a member of the Center for Mathematics and Applications of the New University of Lisbon (CMA UNL), develops scientific research in Distributions Theory (exact and near-exact distributions of some statistics used in Multivariate Analysis) and Statistics Applications (with special interest in Health). Publishes papers regularly in international scientific journals and has made several presentations at national and international meetings of Statistics, including as an Invited Speaker, receiving the "Best presentation award", in the PhD student category, with a paper presented at the International Conference on Statistics, Combinatorics and Related Areas and X Conference of the Forum for Interdisciplinary Mathematics (SCRA2003|FIMX), University of Southern Maine, USA. At the moment, is Academic editor of the British Journal of Mathematics & Computer Science, member of the Editorial Board of the Asian Journal of Mathematics and Computer Research and member of the board of CLAD (Portuguese Association of Classification and Data Analysis). As a member of Scientific and Organizing Committees, has participated in several national and international meetings of Statistics. In particular, in the IPT was the Chair of the International Conferences SCRA2006|FIM XIII, the XIX Conference on Classification and Data Analysis (JOCLAD2012), the 7th Workshop on Statistics, Mathematics and Computation (WSMC7, 2013) and the 5th International Conference on Risk Analysis (ICRA5, 2013).

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