PARENTAL HEALTH LITERACY AND BEHAVIOR ON COVID-19 PREVENTION IN CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER
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health literacy, behavior on COVID-19 prevention, parents in child development centersAbstract
This descriptive and correlational research aimed to investigate parental health literacy and behavior on COVID-19 prevention and the relationship between parental health literacy and behavior on COVID-19 prevention in Child Development Center. The study samples comprised 95 parents of children in the Child Development Center of Kelangnakorn Municipality, Lampang Province. The research instruments consisted of questionnaires about health literacy and parental behavior on COVID-19 prevention. The content validity indexes of both questionnaires equaled 1.0 and reliability using Cronbach’s alpha coefficients showed the values of .89 and .91, respectively. Data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics and Spearman’s Rank correlation coefficient.
The results of this study revealed that: 1) Participants had a high level of health literacy (M = 58.74, SD = 5.57); 2) The parental behavior on COVID-19 prevention score was at a high level (M = 37.31, SD = 3.76); and 3) Parental health literacy had a significant positive relationship with behaviors on COVID-19 prevention (r = .403, p = .000).
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