Influence of Chromatic Stimuli on Elementary School students-Cycle I

Scientific research on the influence of colors in environments has been carried out, in its cultural and psychological aspects, in educational areas through chromotherapy, in the context of Complementary Integrative Practices. Instigated by the scope of Visual Sciences that aims to study visual perception and its importance for health and education, this study was a randomized, double-blind clinical trial on the effect of colors on the cognitive development results of the Figure Drawing test Human and self-perception of Health-Related Quality of Life of 36 elementary school students (grades 3 to 5), with a sample of 36 volunteers, with normal visual acuity, girls mean age 9.8 standard deviation ±0.8 10 and boys mean age 10.2 standard deviation ±0.8, induced by blue, green, yellow and red chromatic visual stimuli. The protocol was conducted in classrooms, in a daily situation, at CEMEB Anísio Teixeira in Várzea Paulista, São Paulo, Brazil. Previously, the volunteers were submitted to ophthalmological exams computed by the Hospital de Olhos in the Jundiaí city, São Paulo, Brazil. The investigation procedures took place in a normal environment (control) and intervention (colors). The KIDSCREEN-52 questionnaire was used to assess the volunteers' Perception of Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) and the Human Figure Drawing Test (DFH) for a cognitive assessment validated according to the parameters of CFP Resolution 002/2003 ( Conselho Federal de Psicologia), both tests for Brazilian children and adolescents, under the supervision of qualified professionals. As a statistical procedure for the DFH test, the Sapiro-Wilk normality test was used followed by Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) for repeated measures and Tukey's test and the paired Student's t test for the analysis of the results of the questionnaire with a significance level of 5 %.through Graphpad Prism® 8.0.1 software. Those responsible for the volunteers were invited to sign the Free and Informed Consent form, as well as the subjects also signed the Consent for minors and the project was approved by the Ethics Committee of UNIP – SP (document nº 3.676.122) as well as the study was carried out in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. Significant results were observed in the test scores and it was suggested that more research be carried out to expand the investigations