THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CAREGIVER’S QUALITY OF LIFE AND EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT IN THE NORTHEAST REGION

Abstract

The purposes of this research were to study situation caregiver’s quality of life, early childhood development in the northeast region, factors of caregiver’s socio-demographic characteristics, early childhood development and the association among factors of socio-demographic characteristics, caregiver’s quality of life with early childhood development. Data collection was done by using interview to collect data from 584 caregivers of children and child development checking of 584 early childhood. The data was analyzed by frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation and Multiple Logistic Regression. The results revealed that situation caregiver’s quality of life in the northeast region showed that caregivers are female 93.3%, average age is 40.4 years with a range of 16-74. Caregiver’s quality of life in good level at 77.7%. 51.9% of early childhood had normal development. Factors associated with early childhood development were appeared of 4 factors as: 1) monthly self- income of caregiver (AOR = 1.7; 95%CI: 1.39 to 2.49; p-value 0.018) 2) living with parent of child (AOR = 1.4; 95%CI: 1.21 to 1.96; p-value 0.047) 3) caregiver’s quality of life about physical (AOR = 1.2; 95%CI: 1.11 to 1.89; p-value 0.032) and 4) caregiver’s quality of life about social relationship (AOR = 2.0; 95%CI: 1.63 to 2.73; p-value 0.011) Therefore, the way to support the early childhood had normal development must create jobs and careers in the community. Created income of caregiver to encourage family to live together and improve caregiver’s quality of life to be better.