The Relationship of Parental Knowledge to the Development of Extremely Low Birth Weight Infants

Abstract

This study examined the relationship between parental experience, parental knowledge, and the development of extremely low birth weight infants. The subjects (Ti = 40) were extremely high-risk infants averaging 1000.0 grams birthweight and 28.1 weeks gestational age. The study found that mothers of preterm infants called upon the same types of experiences and sources of information about infancy as mothers of full-term infants. Further, ratings of maternal accuracy on the Knowledge of Infant Development Inventory accounted for 13% to 15% of the variation on the Mental Development Index (MDI) and Psychomotor Development Index (PDI) of the Bay ley Scales of Infant Development at 8 months corrected age. The infants of mothers with greater than average knowledge about infancy scored approximately one standard deviation higher on both the MDI and the PDI than did the infants of mothers who had less than average knowledge about infancy. Implications for intervention are discussed. THE RELATIONSHIP OF PARENTAL KNOWLEDGE TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF EXTREMELY LOW BIRTHWEIGHT INFANTS Researchers have devoted extensive study to understanding the developmental sequelae of preterm birth, although they have not reached consensus regarding the etiology of negative outcomes (Meisels & Plunkett, 1988). Some researchers have focused on biological sources of developmental problems (Field,

What Mothers Know About Child Development and Parenting in Qatar

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Relationship among Mother's knowledge of Infant development, Maternal Parenting Stress, Maternal Parenting Behavior and Infant Development

“…양육지식과 양육행동 간의 관계를 살펴본 Lee ( (Dichtelmiller, et al, 1992). 또한 어머니가 양육에 대한 지식을 많이 가질수록 어머니는 양육에 대한 효능감이 높 으며, 양육에 대해 더 많이 만족하는 것으로 나타났다 (Bornstein et al, 2003.…”

“…이 뿐만 아 니라 어머니가 양육에 대한 지식을 많이 가질수록 더 적 절한 양육의 기술을 구사하며 (Stevens, 1984) (Hong & Kim, 2008;Lee & Lee, 2010;Shim, et al, 2007;Yang & Cho et al, 2009)가 대부분이며, 양육지식의 양육행동과 양육효능감 에 대한 영향 연구 (Lee, 2009; (Ahn & Park, 2002;Park, et al, 1996;Shin, 1997), 비일관적인 훈육을 하기도 하는 것으로 보고되고 있으며 (Lempers, et al, 1989), 양육스트레스가 낮을수록 자녀를 합리적으로 지도하고 애정적으로 대하는 것으로 보고되고 있다 (Kim & Moon, 2005). 특히 어머니의 양육스트레스 는 지속적인 특성이 있어 그 특성이 크게 변화하지 않고, 유아가 발달하는 동안에도 유아의 부적응이나 문제행동에 직접적으로 또는 간접적으로 영향을 주며 (Crinic, et al, 2005), 유아의 대인적응성, 인기도/지도력과 같은 사회성 발달에도 영향을 준다고 한다 (Kim & Do, 2004 (Bornstein, 2003;Dichtelmiller, et al, 1992;Donovan, et al, 2007) (Ainsworth, et al, 1978;Kim & Park, 2008;Lasko, et al, 1999). …”