Early childhood development of child development center in Koodsaijor Sub-district, Kantharawichai District, Maha Sarakham Province

Abstract

This research aimed to study the development of early childhood in child development center. It was a cross-sectional descriptive research. The Developmental Surveillance and Promotion Manual (DSPM) and a questionnaire were used for collecting data. The study samples were 38 children and 38 parents. Results revealed most of parents were female and related to children as mothers or grandparents. The parents’ age were between 36 and 55 years, They mostly graduated at primary level, were farmers and had family incomes less than 5,000 bahts per month. Knowledge and practice about child care were both at the good levels. For the children, age was from 2 years 4 months to 4 years 10 months and started at the child centre around 2 years 6 months to 2 years 9 months. It was found that 55.3% of the early children had appropriate development and 44.7% were suspected as delayed development. Interestingly, 21.10% of the children who had developmental problems were related to fine motor domain. As the results, the parents and care givers should do developmental surveillance covering all 5 domains and highlight on the fine motor domain. Therefore, the early children will be grow and develop as well as their ages.