Parenting Knowledge, Parental Investments, and Early Childhood Development in Rural Households in Western China

Zhong, Jingdong; He, Yang; Gao, Jingjing; Wang, Tianyi; Luo, Renfu

doi:10.3390/ijerph17082792

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“…These scales have been formally adapted to the language and the environment context, and have been used in a couple of studies in rural areas of China [2]. In addition, the scales have been checked for reliability in the Chinese population, and the reliability coefficents are larger than 0.8 for all of these scales [20], which indicates that the reliability is adequate [21]. The cognitive, language, and motor scores depend on the number of of tasks that the child could successfully complete [19], while the social-emotional score is based on the caregivers' responses to a series of questions developed from the Greenspan Social-Emotional Growth Chart [22].…”

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The Interrelationships between Parental Migration, Home Environment, and Early Child Development in Rural China: A Cross-Sectional Study

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A growing body of literature is providing evidence of a negative association between parental migration and child development. Meanwhile, the chain of relationships between parental migration, home environment, and early child development has not yet been well documented in China. This paper investigates the interrelationships between parental migration, home environment, and early child development in an undeveloped area of western rural China. In total, 444 households were included in the study. Bayley Scales of Infant Development version III (BSID-III), Home Observation Measurement of the Environment (HOME), and a socioeconomic questionnaire, were used to measure children’s development outcomes, home environment, and socioeconomic characteristics in sample households. A mediation effect model was used to estimate the interrelationships between parental migration, home environment, and child development. The results demonstrate that home environment works as a significant mediator, through which parental migration is associated with a 0.07 standard deviation (SD), 0.13 SD, 0.12 SD, and 0.10 SD decline in the child’s cognitive, language, motor, and social-emotional scores, respectively. For future studies, the key findings suggest that interventions aimed at improving the home environments of left-behind children might be necessary in rural China.

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“…In the judges' opinion, the content was clear enough to help them learn how to deal with the baby's illness during the pandemic and understand the importance of affective care for their newborn child. Thus, knowledge of early attention to child development was transmitted and could be assimilated by mothers, both particularly important for the exercise of parenting (Yue et al, 2017;Zhong, He, Gao, Wang & Luo, 2020) and for the formation of the emotional bond between mother and child (Gualdrón & Villalobos, 2019).…”

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AMAMENTAÇÃO E CUIDADOS AO BEBÊ DURANTE A PANDEMIA DA COVID-19: como recursos multimídias podem ajudar

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With the COVID-19 pandemic, the development of coping strategies to face the stress generated by the worldwide crisis of the new coronavirus became mandatory. Based on this, the purpose of this article is to analyze multimedia resources on video format for the digital platform Instagram as health education strategies to help puerperal women and their support networks during the COVID-19 pandemic. This is a descriptive methodological study based on the evaluation of content validity criterion by 21 postnatal judges, with an average age of 29.38 years. Most of them lived in the southeastern region of Brazil (n = 20) and had higher education (52.38%), followed by high school (38.09%). Content Validity Coefficients (CVC) ≥ 0.80 were adopted to validate language clarity, relevance, pertinence, and presentation of the videos. All CVC of the from the Series “Breastfeeding” were satisfactory between ≥ 0.85 and 1. With the exception of the 4th video (CVC ≥ 0.73) the videos from the Series “Neonatal Care” obtained CVC between ≥0,86 and 1. These results indicate that the target population considered the videos relevant, adequate, easy to understand and aesthetically pleasing. Accordingly, multimedia resources in video format can be considered a valid tool for the educational health proposal. Thus, the videos could help women during the postpartum period and their families to cope with the stress from the COVID-19 pandemic.

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“…Financial support for mothers (or families with young children) also might be a way to reduce the rate of caregiver symptoms of mental health problems as well as reduce the consequences of such symptoms of mental health problems for ECD outcomes. In addition, given the role of education in moderating the negative effects of poor mental health on child development outcomes, educational campaigns, such as broad–based parental training programs [ 71 , 72 ], may improve ECD outcomes among children of caregivers with and without symptoms of mental health problems. The results would support efforts of policymakers to expand support for broad–based parenting intervention initiatives.…”

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Mental Health Issues among Caregivers of Young Children in Rural China: Prevalence, Risk Factors, and Links to Child Developmental Outcomes

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Previous research has found that there are high rates of mental health problems among caregivers in rural China and that caregiver mental health may be a significant predictor of developmental delays among infants and toddlers in these rural areas. In this paper, we use data from a survey of 986 caregiver-child pairs in rural China to examine the risk factors of caregiver mental health and measure the association between caregiver mental health and child development outcomes. To conduct the empirical analysis, we assess caregiver mental health using the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales-21 (DASS-21) questionnaire and measure child developmental outcomes using the Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Developmental Third Edition (Bayley-III). The results show that 32% of caregivers have depressive symptoms, 42% have anxiety symptoms, and 30% have symptoms of stress. The data also demonstrate that caregiver identity and age as well as different measures of socioeconomic status (SES) (characterized by caregiver education, father’s education, and household wealth) are all significantly linked to symptoms of caregiver mental health problems. The analysis shows that caregiver depression, anxiety, and/or stress are significantly associated with lower early childhood development (ECD) outcomes in all areas measured (cognition, language, social-emotion, and motor skills). The heterogeneous analysis demonstrates that there are differences in the effects of caregiver mental health problems on ECD among households are from families that are endowed with different levels of SES. On the basis of the findings the study concludes that policymakers should pay more attention to caregiver mental health problems in order to improve child developmental outcomes in rural China. The study cannot, however, draw casual conclusions and cannot rule out the possibility of recall bias when measuring caregiver mental health, which may limit the external validity of the findings.

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Parenting Knowledge, Parental Investments, and Early Childhood Development in Rural Households in Western China

Cited by 19 publications

References 31 publications

The Interrelationships between Parental Migration, Home Environment, and Early Child Development in Rural China: A Cross-Sectional Study

The Interrelationships between Parental Migration, Home Environment, and Early Child Development in Rural China: A Cross-Sectional Study

AMAMENTAÇÃO E CUIDADOS AO BEBÊ DURANTE A PANDEMIA DA COVID-19: como recursos multimídias podem ajudar

Mental Health Issues among Caregivers of Young Children in Rural China: Prevalence, Risk Factors, and Links to Child Developmental Outcomes

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