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Publisher: Peytchinski Publishing Ltd.
ISSN: 1312-773X (Online)
Issue: 2022, vol. 28, issue3
Subject Area: Public Health
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DOI: 10.5272/jimab.2022283.4465
Published online: 21 July 2022
Original article
J of IMAB. 2022 Jul-Sep;28(3):4465-4468
THE NURSERY - A LEADING FACTOR FOR HEALTH EDUCATION IN EARLY CHILDHOOD
Gergana Markova
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Department of Nursing Surgical Care, Faculty of Health Care, Medical University of Pleven, Bulgaria.
ABSTRACT:
Purpose: To determine the importance of the nursery for the implementation of health education in early childhood.
Materials and methods:
- Comprehensive medical and social research (2015-2018)
- Sociological methods: documentary, questionnaire and observation
- Participants 533 people in total.
The survey data were processed with STATGRAPHICS statistical software packages; SPSS 19 and EXCEL for Windows. The results are described by tables, graphs and numerical indicators for structure, frequency, averages, correlation coefficients and others.
Results: 83.88% (n = 360) of the parents share that they observe a change in their children from the moment they start attending crèches. There is a significant difference in the habits learned by the children, at the beginning of the observation and at the end (p <0.05; r> 0.7).
Conclusion: The nursery is both an opportunity and a means for better health through the health-educational process that takes place in it. It is a major factor playing an important role in shaping the personality and laying the foundations of its attitude to health.
Keywords: crèches, health education, early childhood,
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Please cite this article as: Markova G. The nursery - a leading factor for health education in early childhood. J of IMAB. 2022 Jul-Sep;28(3):4465-4468. DOI: 10.5272/jimab.2022283.4465
Correspondence to: Gergana Markova, Department of Surgical Nursing, Faculty of Health Care, Medical University – Pleven; 1, Sv. Kliment Ohridski Str., 5800 Pleven, Bulgaria; E-mail: markova_gergana@mail.bg
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Received: 29 December 2021
Published online: 21 July 2022