Modern approaches of diagnosis and criteria for assessing the limitations of life activities in adolescents with mild mental retardation

Pidlubnyi V. L., Chabaniuk S. O. Modern approaches of diagnosis and criteria for assessing the limitations of life activities in adolescents with mild mental retardation. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2021;11(03): 57-66. eISSN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.12775/JEHS.2021.11.03.007 https://apcz.umk.pl/czasopisma/index.php/JEHS/article/view/JEHS.2021.11.03.007 https://zenodo.org/record/4628205 The journal has had 5 points in Ministry of Science and Higher Education parametric evaluation. § 8. 2) and § 12. 1. 2) 22.02.2019. © The Authors 2021; This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author (s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non commercial license Share alike. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper. Received: 15.02.2021. Revised: 26.02.2021. Accepted: 22.03.2021. MODERN APPROACHES OF DIAGNOSIS AND CRITERIA FOR ASSESSING THE LIMITATIONS OF LIFE ACTIVITIES IN ADOLESCENTS WITH MILD MENTAL RETARDATION V. L. Pidlubnyi, S. O. Chabaniuk Zaporizhzhia State Medical University, Ukraine Abstract Among the forms of mental pathology that are found in childhood, mental retardation (MR), which makes a significant contribution to the rates of morbidity and disability, occupies a special place. In order to investigate modern approaches and the criteria for diagnosis and assessment of limitations of life with mild MR in adolescents, on the basis of the Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine) neuropsychiatric dispensary, a two-stage clinical-epidemiological, clinical-psychopathological and psychodiagnostic study of 154 people born in 2003-2008 with mild MR was carried out. According to the results of the study, a number of factors that directly affect the quality of life of adolescents with mild MR have been established, among them: underdevelopment of cognitive forms of mental activity (in the forms of violations of logical thinking, slowing down of processes of generalization and comparison), slow pace of thinking and inertia of thought processes (which makes impossible to transfer the skill acquired in the learning process to new conditions), underdevelopment of thinking with a decrease in the function of attention (which leads to underdevelopment of complex emotions and arbitrary forms of behavior), mental underdevelopment in combination with impaired motor skills, speech, memory, attention and emotional sphere. Key words: mental retardation; social adaptation; psychoeducation; quality of life