Lee Ju-Young, Murry Nicole, Ko Jisook, Kim Miyong T
J Health Care Poor Underserved. 2018;29(4):1455-1471. doi: 10.1353/hpu.2018.0106.
To explore the association of maternal health literacy (MHL), parenting self-efficacy and early parenting practices among low-income mothers with infants.
A cross-sectional, descriptive correlational design.
Low-income mothers (N=186) with infants.
Face-to-face interviews were conducted using English and Spanish versions of questionnaires by trained bilingual research assistants. The Newest Vital Sign (NVS) screening tool was used to measure MHL.
Nearly three-quarters (72%) of mothers were rated as having low MHL. In the bivariate analysis, MHL was positively correlated with education, household income, language, social support, parenting self-efficacy, and early parenting practices, but negatively correlated with number of children. The study findings demonstrate that parenting self-efficacy had a mediating effect on MHL and early parenting practices among mothers with infants.
Results suggest that future research is needed to advance MHL in low-income mothers and to inform potential HL interventions for this target population.
探讨低收入有婴儿母亲的孕产妇健康素养(MHL)、育儿自我效能感与早期育儿行为之间的关联。
横断面描述性相关性设计。
有婴儿的低收入母亲(N = 186)。
由经过培训的双语研究助理使用英文和西班牙文版问卷进行面对面访谈。使用最新生命体征(NVS)筛查工具来测量MHL。
近四分之三(72%)的母亲被评定为MHL较低。在双变量分析中,MHL与教育程度、家庭收入、语言、社会支持、育儿自我效能感和早期育儿行为呈正相关,但与子女数量呈负相关。研究结果表明,育儿自我效能感在有婴儿母亲的MHL和早期育儿行为中起中介作用。
结果表明,未来需要开展研究以提高低收入母亲的MHL,并为针对该目标人群的潜在健康素养干预措施提供信息。