DETERMINATION OF LIFE QUALITY OF HEALTHY CHILDREN AT THE AGE GROUP OF 4-7 YEARS ACCORDING TO THEIR PARENTS’ VIEWS

Abstract

Thus this study aims to investigate life quality of healthy children at the age group of 4-7 years who received/still receive pre-school education according to their parents’ views by means of general life quality criteria. This is a descriptive research. The study group included parents of 78 healthy children between the ages of 4-7 years who received or still receive pre-school education. “KINDL”4-7 Age Family Form was used to collect data as parents would assess life quality of their children indirectly. SPSS 15.0 package program was used to analyze the data. Mann-Whitney U Test and Kruskal-Wallis H Test were used to determine whether there is a difference between scale scores related to socio-demographic features. According to parents’ views, the factors on which children have highest life quality are “family” (  =83.21), “kindergarten” (  =82.82), “emotional well-being” (  =81.99), “social relationships” (  =81.67), respectively. The lowest factors are “self-esteem” (  =75.00) and “physical well-being” (  =69.94), respectively. Total score average of KINDL is (  = 79.10). Parents’ views about life quality of their children (general scale scores) do not statistically significantly differ by gender and age of children and children number in family (p>0.05). Results which obtained from the research is important in the sense tahat to show what is the level of healty children wcich taken pre-scholl education and continue to take. And what they are affected. And then in the sense that to the effect of reducing in the problems of life quality which will be lived at next time.

Keywords

• Healthy Child
• Parent Views
• Life Quality