Socio-demographic Characteristics and Caregiver’s Quality of Life Associated with Suspected Developmental Delay among Early Childhood in Northeast of Thailand

Abstract

The first 5 years was possibly the most critical and extremely important in child development. Development problem of Thai children are not improve to standard. This research aimed to analyze about association between Socio-demographic Characteristics, Caregiver’s quality of life and suspected developmental delay among early childhood. A Cross-sectional analytical study, there are 1,168 sampling groups; caregivers 584 persons, early childhood 584 persons, between April to May 2019. The multivariable analysis was used by multiple logistic regression. Early childhood aged average 36.1 months, males are 53.1%, and with suspected developmental delay 48.1% . There are 4 factors which are associated with the suspected developmental delay; 1) monthly self- income of caregiver (AOR = 1.9; 95% CI: 1.24 to 2.87; p = 0.003) 2) gander (AOR = 1.9; 95% CI: 1.33 to 2.64; p<0.001) 3) age range (AOR = 2.5; 95% CI: 1.54 to 4.09; p<0.001) and 4) quality of life about social relationship (AOR = 1.6; 95% CI: 1.23 to 2.01; p = 0.020). Prevalence of suspected developmental delay is quite high, Socio-demographic Characteristics and caregiver’s quality of life has influenced to the early childhood development.