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We used (1) Generic Health Literacy (GHL) Scale for Thais, (2) parent's management and awareness of their child's health-PMATCH, an instrument, which was developed to explore HL, which pertains to the capability to manage their child's health and (3) parents' health promotive practices on age-appropriate childcare recommendations. Cronbach's alpha was used to analyse the internal consistency of HL scales (HL = 0.97 and PMATCH = 0.94) and confirmatory factor analysis was used to analyse the PMATCH scale. Logistic regressions were used to identify associations between HL, PMATCH and parents' practices including dentist visits, exclusive breastfeeding, sleeping on the back, self-feeding and screen time.</p>\n </section>\n \n <section>\n \n <h3> Results</h3>\n \n <p>Of the 144 parents, 82.8% were female; most parents had fair HL (low 4.9%, fair 56.9% and high 38.2%) and high PMATCH. Confirmatory factor analysis standardized loadings and inter-factor correlations for the PMATCH instrument were highly significant. Parents' HL was found to mediate PMATCH on specific outcomes. Although total HL was not significantly associated with parent outcome behaviours, PMATCH-Practice was significantly positively associated with bringing the child to the dentist regularly (AOR 1.74) and negatively associated with the child sleeping on the back (AOR 0.52). We did not find a significant association between total HL, PMATCH and breast feeding, self-feeding or screentime.</p>\n </section>\n \n <section>\n \n <h3> Conclusions</h3>\n \n <p>There is a complex interplay between parental health promotive practices, HL and PMATCH. 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Health Literacy and Adherence to Age-Appropriate Childcare Recommendations Among Parents in Northeast Thailand
Background
Children of parents who have higher health literacy (HL) have better outcomes. Most studies on parents' generic HL focus on the capability to manage their own health, rather than the capability to manage their child's health.
Methods
Parents of children 0–5 years at the paediatric outpatient department at a university hospital participated in this cross-sectional study by answering a self-administered questionnaire. We used (1) Generic Health Literacy (GHL) Scale for Thais, (2) parent's management and awareness of their child's health-PMATCH, an instrument, which was developed to explore HL, which pertains to the capability to manage their child's health and (3) parents' health promotive practices on age-appropriate childcare recommendations. Cronbach's alpha was used to analyse the internal consistency of HL scales (HL = 0.97 and PMATCH = 0.94) and confirmatory factor analysis was used to analyse the PMATCH scale. Logistic regressions were used to identify associations between HL, PMATCH and parents' practices including dentist visits, exclusive breastfeeding, sleeping on the back, self-feeding and screen time.
Results
Of the 144 parents, 82.8% were female; most parents had fair HL (low 4.9%, fair 56.9% and high 38.2%) and high PMATCH. Confirmatory factor analysis standardized loadings and inter-factor correlations for the PMATCH instrument were highly significant. Parents' HL was found to mediate PMATCH on specific outcomes. Although total HL was not significantly associated with parent outcome behaviours, PMATCH-Practice was significantly positively associated with bringing the child to the dentist regularly (AOR 1.74) and negatively associated with the child sleeping on the back (AOR 0.52). We did not find a significant association between total HL, PMATCH and breast feeding, self-feeding or screentime.
Conclusions
There is a complex interplay between parental health promotive practices, HL and PMATCH. Future studies should invest in further understanding the relationship between HL and PMATCH, and the causes of non-adherence to formulate better-targeted preventive interventions.
期刊介绍:
Child: care, health and development is an international, peer-reviewed journal which publishes papers dealing with all aspects of the health and development of children and young people. We aim to attract quantitative and qualitative research papers relevant to people from all disciplines working in child health. We welcome studies which examine the effects of social and environmental factors on health and development as well as those dealing with clinical issues, the organization of services and health policy. We particularly encourage the submission of studies related to those who are disadvantaged by physical, developmental, emotional and social problems. The journal also aims to collate important research findings and to provide a forum for discussion of global child health issues.