The Relationship between Caregiver’s Quality of Life and Early Childhood Development in The Area Health Region VII

Abstract

Child development is the ultimate goal of raising children in the family. The objective of this research aimed to assess early childhood development, caregiver’s quality of life situation in the area health region VII and to analyze associations with variable of caregiver’s characteristics and early childhood development. The sample consisted of 800 caregivers and early childhood. Using interview the caregiver’s quality of life and assess the child's development with the Denver II tool. The data was analyzed by mean, standard deviation, frequency, percentage and analyzed by multiple logistic regression. The results revealed that situation caregiver’s quality of life in the area health region VII showed that caregivers are female 94.4%, average age is 43.8 years (SD. 14.0) with a range of 16-77. Caregiver’s quality of life in good level at 77.1%. 56.8% of early childhood had normal development. Language domain was the domains that children suspected development the most. There were 4 factors related with early childhood development ; 1) family income (AOR = 1.8; 95%CI: 1.39 - 3.34; p-value 0.009) 2) living with parent of child (AOR = 1.7; 95%CI: 1.31 - 2.96; p-value 0.024) 3) caregiver's disease (AOR = 1.4; 95%CI: 1.29 - 2.15; p-value 0.032) and 4) caregiver’s quality of life about social relationship (AOR = 1.4; 95%CI: 1.23 - 2.73; p-value 0.011) Therefore, the way to support early childhood had normal development must to promote the family have sufficient income to sustain life. For to encourage family to live together, to be the caregivers without diseases and improve caregiver’s quality of life to be better.