Abstract:
Children with delayed development have less ability to look after themselves.Self-help will result in a burden for the caregiver of children. This predictive correlational research aimed to examine factors predicting of burden of caregivers for children with delayed development. A convenience sampling was used to recruit 76 caregivers of children with delayed development who brought their children to received service at the outpatient department of the Child Development and Behavior Clinic of Rajanukul Institute, Bangkok. Data collection was carried out from May to June 2019. Research instruments consisted of a demographic questionnaire, the child self-care ability scale, the social support questionnaire and the burden of caregivers of children with delayed development questionnaire for. Their Cronbach's alpha reliability were .85, .92 and .93, respectively. Data were analyzed by using descriptive statistic, and Multiple Linear Regression. Results revealed that child self-care and social support accounted for 39.2% (Adjust R 2 = .375, p< .001) of variance in the prediction burden of the caregivers children with delayed development.Which the factors that can predict the best are Self-care ability of children Can predict the burden of caregivers of children with delayed development accounted for 23.7% (B = -.441, p< .001) And the second factor is social support accounted for 15.5% (B = -.396, p< .001) This finding suggests that nurses should develop an intervention to care for children with delayed development by focusing on the child's self-care ability and social support for caregivers in order to enhance effectiveness of caringfor children with delayed developmen