Effects of caregiver’s behavioral modification program on development and positive discipline promotion for pre-school children by application of health literacy concept
Keywords:
behavioral modification, development and positive discipline promotion, health literacy, preschool childrenAbstract
The purpose of this quasi-experimental research was to study the effects of a caregiver’s behavioral modification program on development and positive discipline promotion for preschool children by application of health literacy concept on caregivers’ health literacy and behaviors in the development and positive discipline promotion of preschool children. Sample were 84 preschool children’s caregivers aged 20-60 years, who were selected using a simple random sampling method. They were equally divided into an experimental group and a comparison group, 42 people each.
The research instruments were as follows. 1) A caregiver’s behavioral modification program on development and positive discipline promotion for preschool children by the application of health literacy concept. It was a 12-week program consisting of 4 activities: access to information by heart to build a bond of love; understand information to enhance positive discipline; evaluate the available information to make children smart, good and happy; and make children proud with the application of information. 2) Research instruments for data collection, which consisted of demographic questionnaire, health literacy in development and positive discipline promotion of caregivers of preschool children questionnaire, and behaviors in development and positive discipline promotion of caregivers of preschool children questionnaire. Data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics. Within-group differences were compared by paired t-test, and between-group differences were compared by independent t-test and multiple linear regression.
The results were as follows. 1) after the experiment, the health literacy mean scores of the experimental group were significantly higher than those before the experiment and higher than those of the comparison group in all aspects (p-value<0.001). 2) after the experiment, the mean scores of behaviors in development and positive discipline promotion of the experimental group were significantly higher than those before the experiment and higher than those of the comparison group (p-value<0.001).
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