The Quality of Early Care Giver-Child Interactional behaviors in Lid Eta Sub-City Kebele 12, Addis Ababa.
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2005-06
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
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
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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
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(emotional and cognitive behaviors).
The analysis has employed descriptive, one-sample t test (to
indicate
whether
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sample mean is different or the same from the specified levels of quality) and the major
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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.
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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
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The Quality of Early Care Giver-Child Interactional behaviors