The development of an assessment and promotion model for early childhood development with participation from people in the community in the covid-19 situation in the responsible area of Jebilang Health Promotion Hospital, Mueang District, Satun Province

Abstract

The purposes of this research were to explore problematic status, to develop the assessment model and to evaluate effectiveness of the new developed model. This research was divided into three stages: Stage one was to investigate the problematic states regarding knowledge, behaviors and satisfaction by using questionnaires and focus group discussions for proposing development model. Stage two was to develop the assessment method by applying Appreciation Influence Control (AIC) process. Stage three was to evaluate effectiveness of this new developed model. Participants consisted of 63 guardians and 63 early-aged children. Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, inferential statistics, and paired t-test. The results revealed that:

1. Problematic issues were the fact that only 55.60% of the guardians had sufficient knowledge level and merely 52.4% of them illustrated behaviors related to evaluating and promoting early childhood development. In terms of COVID-19, 52.38% of the guardians had knowledge on COVID 19 prevention, and 52.38% showed behaviors of COVID-19 surveillance. The satisfaction with the current model was 58.73%.

2. To evaluate and promote early childhood development with community participation, this study suggested the new developed model including the activities to increase capacities of partnership agencies, to develop relevant tools, to prepare working guidelines and to expand this working concept.

3. The result also illustrated that, after applying this new developed model, knowledge level and behaviors relating to evaluating and promoting early childhood development; knowledge on COVID 19 prevention and practice in COVID-19 surveillance; and satisfaction on the new developed model were increased at the P <0.05 statistical significance. The percentage of young aged participants involved in early childhood development assessment increased from 76.19 to 95.23 while the percentage of young aged participants with proper childhood development enlarged from 75 to 88.33. Home visit activities on childhood development were also boosted from 70 to 100%