Introduction: The growth rate in the first year of life is faster. Child developmental assessment in first year of Childs may reflect maturity problems and indicates that many of deficiencies that can be treated with the intervention so investigation on evolutionary status of these children in order to awareness of parents to treatment is essential. This study was to aimed, assess the developmental characteristics of one year old children in Khorramabad.
Methods: This study is descriptive cross-sectional study in health centers of Khorramabad and on 764 children referred to health centers. The Inclusion criteria were absence of congenital physical illness, not immatureness, having medical records in the health center and having regular visits. To monitor of child’s height and weight scales and meters were used, for assess developmental parameters standard tools and ASQ questionnaires were used.
Results: 387 (66/50%) were male and 376 (34/49%) were female.development of 82/8% were Natural, 7/9% of the total area of abnormal development and were 16/3% had at least one abnormal area. Data analysis showed that there is a statistically significant relationship between abnormal development and neonatal complications, birth weight, birth order (third and higher), maternal age, pregnancy complications (epilepsy), Maternal smoking and alcohol, family history of mental retardation and the economic status and family (p <0.05). But there is no statistically significant relationship between the sexes, type of delivery, nutrition, parent education, mother's occupation, infertility and abortion and abnormal development in different stages of the developmental disorder, (p> 0.05).
Conclusions: In this study, 16/3% of children with developmental disorders in the areas of communication, gross motor, fine motor were diagnosed. That shows particular developmental assessments of children are not doing at health centers and just weight, height and head checked it can lead to irreversible effects in adulthood.