Impacts of microcephaly on maternal and child lives: systematic review and Meta-analysis
International Journal of Development Research
Impacts of microcephaly on maternal and child lives: systematic review and Meta-analysis
Received 27th January, 2021; Received in revised form 20th February, 2021; Accepted 14th March, 2021; Published online 22th April, 2021
Copyright © 2021, Dayse Christina Rodrigues Pereira et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The aim of the study is to identify the psychosocial and financial impacts of microcephaly on maternal and child lives. This study is a systematic review followed by meta-analysis covering the databases from the Virtual Health Library: SCIELO and LILACS. Articles in English, Portuguese and Spanish within a publication period of the last 5 years were taken as references, using the descriptors in DeCS: Microcephaly, mother and quality of life,in addition to the use of the Boolean operator AND.The analysis has a final effect of 0.39 considering a CI from 0.36 to 0.41, which represents a large effect on the impacts of microcephaly on quality of life.Therefore, it is crucial to understand the impacts that the pathology generates, so that more public policies are implemented aimed at improving not only the quality of life of the patients, but also of the family and society. Thus, ensuring a better health care guideline.
