Abstract:
The purpose of this research was to develop the infant massage program for enhancing infants' temperament and interaction in child welfare home. The experimental group consisted of 40 infants with 4 10 months old and 20 caregivers in Payathai babies' home.The instruments were Infant Temperament Questionnaire, and Teaching Scale. Mean, standard deviation (S.D.) and t-test were utilized for statistical analysis. The results were as follows: 1.) after the program experiment, the difficult childs temperament scores of the experimental group were significantly lower than control group at 0.01 level, 2.) after the program experiment, the interaction scores of the experimental group were significantly higher than control group at 0.01 level. The revised and proposed program was consisted of program principles, objectives, target group, content features, implementing procedures, and evaluation; the implementing procedures include the following phases: 1.) preliminary project planning, 2.) project start up, 3.) project consolidation.