Early Child Parenting Behavior of Caregiver in the Northeast Region

Abstract

The purposes of this Cross-sectional Analytical research were to study situation early child parenting behavior of caregiver in the northeast region, Thailand, factors of caregiver’s socio-demographic characteristics and the association among factors of socio-demographic characteristics with early child parenting behavior of caregiver. Data collection was done by using interview to collect data from 584 caregivers of children. The data was analyzed by frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation and multiple logistic regression. The results revealed that situation early child parenting behavior of caregiver in the northeast region, Thailand showed that caregivers are female 93.3%, average age is 40.4 years (SD. = 13.8) with a range of 16-74. Early child parenting behavior of caregiver are in moderate level at 52.0%. Factors associated with early child parenting behavior of caregiver were appeared of 2 factors as: 1) living with parent of child (AOR = 2.0; 95%CI: 1.26 to 3.24; p-value 0.003) 2) extended family
(AOR = 1.7; 95%CI: 1.11 to 2.78; p-value 0.043) Therefore, to enhance the caregiver parenting behavior in regarding the raising of childhood mustencourage family to live together.