Stress of Parents of Pre-school children in Sirindhorn College of Public Health Khon Kaen Province

Abstract

           Stress happens to everybody. Bringing up children can cause a stress to their parents as well. Stress in pre-school parents may have mental and emotional impact on children. This can cause anxiety and difficulty in their learning. This study was a descriptive study. The objective of this program was to study stress of the pre-school parents in Sirindhorn College of Public Health, Khon Kaen Province, this was included, digested and compared stress of parents related to various individual factors. Data were collected in Sirindhorn College of Public Health, Khon Kaen Province using questionnaires during November to December 2012. The target group was 35 parents in Sirindhorn College of Public Health Khon Kaen Province. The result showed that the mentioned stress level of pre-school parents in Sirindhorn College of Public Health, Khon Kaen Province was in a normal level. Several parents’ aspects including gender, age, education, occupation, income, marital status, the number of children, pregnancy problems, family’s characteristic, relation between children and the parents, age of the children when they started pre-school, number of children in their family, and the distance from home to school were taken into consideration. It was found that the stress levels of all parents’ aspects were not different from each other. On the other hand, when the factor of balancing income and saving money was considered, it was found that the parents with balancing income and saving money got less stress level than the ones with unbalancing income with statistical significance more than 99% confident interval. The parents who earned balancing income without saving money still got less stress level than the ones with unbalancing income with statistically significance more than 99% confident interval. Anyway, there was no significant difference between the group of parents earning balancing income with saving money and another one with balancing income without saving money (p-value = 0.625).