Results of Parents’ and Guardians’ Development Promotion for Children Aged 3-6 Years in Nakhon Ratchasima Province

Abstract

Objectives of this cross-sectional research were to study child development, developmental promotion activities, and factors associated with development and developmental promotion activities for children aged 3-6 years by parents and guardians in Nakhon Ratchasima province. Population was 73,154 parents and guardians of children aged 3-6 years old enrolled at child development centers in 2024. Samples were 382 parents and guardians determined by Krejcie and Morgan's formular. Sampling was done using stratified sampling method at the district and sub-district levels and using simple random sampling in the targeted child development centers. The questionnaire was validated by 3 experts and tested for reliability with 30 persons yielding Cronbach’s alpha coefficient of 0.74. Statistics used in this study were descriptive statistics: frequencies, percentages, means, minimums, maximums, and standard deviations and inferential statistics: Chi-square tests with p=0.05.

The results showed that, about 46.5 percent of the children had age-appropriate development while 67.54 percent were at a moderate level. The vast majority of the samples had moderate levels of development promotion activities (96.83 percent). Factors related to child development were educational level, monthly income, relationships with children, number of children, and order of children. Factors related to child development promotion activities were age, educational level, occupation, monthly income, relationships with children, number of children, and order of children with statistical significance at 0.05 level.