A Confirmation Factor Analysis of Health Literacy for Child Caregivers
Keywords:
Health literacy, Confirmatory factor analysis, Child caregiversAbstract
The caring is the way to taking care of childhood to have good health includes physical, manental and intellectual health. Child caregivers must have health literacy about childhood care in order to development by aged and have proper health behaviors. The purpose of this survey study was to analyze component of caregiver’s health literacy in chid care centers. There were 240 of child caregivers. Data were collcted using nurturing care questionnaire. Content validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by 5 experts yielding the values each item ranged 0.8-1.0 and Reliability of the questionnaire was tested by Cronbach’s alpha coefficient yielding a values of .98. Data were analyzed using confirmation factor analysis.
The research results and confirmatory factor analysis revealed that health literacy of child caregivers in child care centers consisted of six main components: 1) communication skill, 2) health knowledge and understand, 3) media literacy, 4) self-management skill, 5) decision skill, and 6) accessing information and service. The health literacy components of child caregivers in child care centers was fit to the empirical data (χ2(2, N = 240) = 1.06, p = .59, CFI = 1.00, TLI = 1.00, RMSEA = .00, SRMR = .00) The data can be used to develop appropriate caregivers’ assessment tools and design the development of a system to care for child development centers more effectively.
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