Jirawan Klommek. The health belief and safety behaviors of parents with 3-6 year old children in Rajathevi district, Bangkok. Master's Degree(Pediatric Nursing). Mahidol University. Mahidol University Library and Knowledge Center. : Mahidol University, 2000.
The health belief and safety behaviors of parents with 3-6 year old children in Rajathevi district, Bangkok
Abstract:
The purpose of this descriptive research was to investigate health beliefs and safety behaviors in parents of 3-6-year-old children. This research also studied the ability to predict parental safety behaviors by measuring health beliefs on perceived susceptibility, perceived severity, perceived benefits, perceived barriers, age of parents, family income, and injury experience of parents. This study used Rosenstocks Health Belief Model using convenient sampling for 140 parents having 3-6-year-old children studying in kindergarten schools of Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, Rajathevi district, between February and March 2000. Tools for data collection consisted of a demographic data form, parental safety behaviors questionnaires, and questionnaires on parental health belief regarding safety. Analysis was performed using the SPSS/PC computer program. The results indicated that the parental safety behaviors had a highly appropriate (X = 99.17, S.D. = 9.76) and combination of health belief on perceived susceptibility, perceived barriers, perceived benefits, and family income variables accounted for 61.9 % of the variance in parental safety behaviors, of those were significant predictors of safety behaviors (P < .001). Recommendations from this research are that nurses promote parent health beliefs regarding the safety of their children, especially for parents with perceived susceptibility, perceived barriers, perceived benefits, and low incomes. This will encourage parents to stress appropriate safety behaviors for their children and benefit the childrens health by reducing injury incidents
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