DEVELOPING MEASUREMENT OF AN INSTRUMENT FOR CAREGIVERS’ CHILD HEALTHCARE LITERACY

Authors

  • Phatphitcha Kruthangka Department of Educational Research and Psychology, Faculty of Education, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6624-0689
  • Duangkamon Traiwichitkhun Department of Educational Research and Psychology, Faculty of Education, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok
  • Suwimon Wongwanich Department of Educational Research and Psychology, Faculty of Education, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok

Keywords:

healthcare literacy, health literacy, nurturing care, child caregiver

Abstract

           To take care of children to have well-being including physical, psychological, social, emotional, and intellectual health. Caregivers must have child healthcare literacy, be able to seek information, and apply the knowledge of child health care to promote the well-being of children. The purposes of this survey study were 1) to analyze components of caregivers’ child healthcare literacy and 2) to develop and validate the quality of the instrument for caregivers’ child healthcare literacy with empirical data. Samples were 345 child caregivers who worked in nurseries. Data was collected by using a caregivers’ child healthcare literacy questionnaire. The reliability of the questionnaire was tested by the omega coefficient yielding a value of .976. The confirmation factor analysis was performed by using the Mplus program to analyze the data.

           The research results and confirmatory factor analysis revealed that caregivers’ child healthcare literacy consisted of two main components: 1) Health literacy, which included accessing information and service, health knowledge and understanding, communication skill, self-management skill, decision skill, and media literacy; and 2) Nurturing care, which consisted of good health, adequate nutrition, responsive caregiving, security and safety, and opportunities for early learning. The caregivers’ child healthcare literacy components were fit to the empirical data
(gif.latex?\chi2  (343, N = 345) = 446.23, p = .0001, CFI = .979, TLI = .974, SRMR = .051, RMSEA = .030, AIC = 14556.473, BIC = 15140.692, gif.latex?\chi2 /df = 1.30). The standard weights of each main health literacy factor were between .552 and .955, and each main nurturing care factor was between .446 and .971. The results of this research confirmed that the questionnaire could be utilized to assess caregivers’ child healthcare literacy, which indicates caregiver strengths and weaknesses, leading to the designing of a quality system supporting caregivers for child development centers in the future.

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2022-06-28

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Kruthangka, P. ., Traiwichitkhun, D. ., & Wongwanich, S. . (2022). DEVELOPING MEASUREMENT OF AN INSTRUMENT FOR CAREGIVERS’ CHILD HEALTHCARE LITERACY . JOURNAL OF THE POLICE NURSES AND HEALTH SCIENCE, 14(1), 24–36. Retrieved from https://he01.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/policenurse/article/view/252808

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