ประสิทธิผลของโปรแกรมสมาร์ตแคร์สมาร์ตคิดเพื่อส่งเสริมพัฒนาการเด็กก่อนวัยเรียนที่มีพัฒนาการสงสัยล่าช้าในจังหวัดกาฬสินธุ์

panadda poobantad; Sutteeporn  Moolsart; Sumatchara  Manachevakul

Authors

panadda poobantad Community Nurse Practitioner, Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University
Sutteeporn Moolsart School of Nursing, Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University
Sumatchara Manachevakul School of Nursing, Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University

Keywords:

Child development, SmartCare SmartKid Program, Preschool children, Caregivers

Abstract

This quasi-experimental two-group pretest-posttest study aimed to examine the effects of the SmartCare SmartKid Program on caregivers' child-development-promoting behaviors and on the development of preschool children with suspected developmental delay. The sample consisted of 64 caregiver-child dyads with suspected developmental delay in Kalasin Province, divided into an experimental group and a comparison group, 32 dyads each, selected through stratified random sampling. The research instrument was the SmartCare SmartKid Program for promoting development among preschool children with suspected developmental delay, a 6-week intervention. Data collection instruments included a questionnaire on caregivers' preschool child-development-promoting behaviors and a preschool child development assessment form. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, chi-square test, McNemar’s test, Fisher's exact test, and t-test. The results showed that:

Following program participation, caregivers of preschool children in the experimental group demonstrated significantly better child-development-promoting behaviors, both overall and in each domain, than before participation (t = -25.687, p < .001) and then the comparison group (t = 14.407, p < .001). Following program participation, preschool children in the experimental group also had a significantly greater proportion of normal development overall across all five domains than before participation, at the .01 level. However, when compared with the comparison group, the experimental group showed a significantly greater proportion of normal development in four domains, with the exception of the gross motor domain, which did not differ significantly.

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