Heath Literacy of Development Promotion and Nutritional in Children aged 0-5 years of Parents of Early Childhood at Sapphaya District, Chainat Province

Abstract

The objective of studying Heath Literacy of Development Promotion and Nutritional in Children aged 0-5 years of Parents of Early Childhood at Sapphaya District, Chainat Province to study the level of heath literacy in promoting development and nutritional and to study factors that influence heath literacy in promoting development and nutritional status nutrition in children aged 0-5 years of parents raising children and to present guidelines for developing heath literacy in promoting development and nutritional status in children aged 0-5 years of parents raising children. In the area of ​​Sapphaya District Chainat Province. The sample size were parents raising children aged 0-5 years living in Sapphaya District. Chainat Province, numbering 292 people. The research instrument was a questionnaire consisting of 5 parts, 73 questions, using multi-stage random sampling, and data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, including mean: ( ) percentage, standard deviation, rating scale and multiple linear regression analysis with a statistically significant level of 0.05.

The results of the study found that parents who care for children aged 0-5 years in the Sapphaya District area Chainat Province There are behaviors promoting development and nutritional status in children aged 0-5 years overall at a fair level (  = 44.01, SD = 7.89). There is a level of knowledge in promoting development in children aged 0-5 years overall. It is at a fair level ( = 93.95, SD = 22.43) and the overall level of nutritional knowledge in children aged 0-5 years is at a fair level (  = 90.87, SD = 23.37). The factors that are Influences on knowledge in promoting development in children aged 0-5 years of parents raising children are age (  = -0.299,t = -0.510, p-value = 0.001) , average monthly income ( = 3.44 ,t = 2.37, p-value = 0.18), family characteristics (  = 1.46 ,t = 2.13, p-value = 0.34) and sources of knowledge and methods for raising children aged 0-5 years (  = 0.27 ,t = 2.58, p-value = 0.10) with statistical significance at 0.05.