The Effects of Early Childhood Executive Functions Literacy Promotion Program on Knowledge and Behavior of Promoting Child Executive Functions Among Childcare Educators in Lampang Province
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Early Childhood, Executive Functions Literacy, Childcare EducatorAbstract
This quasi-experimental study aimed to investigate the impact of a program designed to enhance early childhood executive function on childhood educators’ knowledge and practices in promoting executive function in young children in Lampang Province. The twenty-six early childhood educators were divided into experimental and control groups. The study adopted Nutbeam's six dimensions of health literacy framework and integrated it with the five dimensions of executive function in early childhood. The instruments used included a program designed to promote early childhood executive function literacy for childhood educators, an assessment tool for evaluating knowledge of executive function promotion with a Kuder-Richardson 20 reliability coefficient of 0.82, and an assessment tool for evaluating executive function promotion practices with a Cronbach's alpha reliability coefficient of 0.95. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, the Mann-Whitney U test, the Wilcoxon Signed Rank test, and the Friedman test.
The results revealed that the experimental group demonstrated significantly higher post-intervention scores in both knowledge and practices of promoting executive function compared to pre-intervention scores (p < 0.01). The finding suggests that nurses can apply this program to design learning activities that promote executive function in young children, tailored to the context of early childhood educators in childcare centers and schools.
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