Browsing by Author "Rahel Gebresilassie"

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    The Quality of Early Care Giver-Child Interactional behaviors in Lid Eta Sub-City Kebele 12, Addis Ababa.
    (Addis Ababa University, 2005-06) Rahel Gebresilassie; Teka Zewdie
    Thi is a descriptive study of the quality of early caregiver-child interaction in one low ocio-economic community of Addis Ababa. An observation was made as a major technique using video recording for 10 minutes for each 30 caregiver-child pairs and the caregivers were interviewed using semi-structured questionnaire for background information. The observation scale depends on the I DP 8 theme of interactional • behaviors comprising 17 items measured on a 4-point scale rating as: 1 (minimal); 2 (moderate)' 3 (good) and 4 (very good), which were grouped into two categories I (emotional and cognitive behaviors). The analysis has employed descriptive, one-sample t test (to indicate whether the sample mean is different or the same from the specified levels of quality) and the major • maternal background characteristics such as maternal age, level of education, monthly income and family size were seen against the quality of emotional behavior and cognitive behavior using non-parametric procedure (spearman's rank correlation). The study revealed that the nature of the quality of interactional behaviors among mother-child pairs was poor, the emotional behavior was predominantly observed than the cognitive aspect although; it was not expressed appropriately in most of the couples and out of mothers' characteristics only mothers' education has showed significant positive correlation with emotional and cognitive behaviors. , Finally, the situation in the study suggest that much effort have to be made to bring better positive quality of early caregiver-child interaction in the community therefore, all concerned bodies must work hard jointly in coordinated and integrated manner