Investigation On Parents’ Compliance Of Well-Baby Checking

Objective:To investigate parents’or caregiver’s compliance of well-baby checking and the influence factors.Methods:Totally500children and their parents’or caregiver’s were recruited from division of child health care, children’s hospital of Chongqing medical university. Questionnaire was used to investigate the frequency of routine well baby checking and implementation of doctors’ professional advises. The descriptive statistical methods was used to obtain parents’or caregiver’s compliance of well-baby checking and factors affecting compliance was analyzed by logistic regression.Results:(1)46.2%subjects were taken well baby checking periodically. Among them, the routine follow-up rate in infants was about2-fold of toddlers’(60.7%vs30.4%).(2)Getting professional advise on fostering baby was the most common purpose of clinic visiting (71.8%).58.8%parents’or caregiver’s were concerned about development of feeding skills and practice.(3)34.4%parents’or caregiver’s would like to improve their parenting methods according to doctor’s professional advises.(4)Only19.0%subjects were taken well baby checking regularly and in the meanwhile raised according to the professional advise, in which71.6%were infants.(5) Age and different caregivers might affect the compliance of well baby checking significantly(P<0.05).Conclusions:The rate of periodical well baby checking is quite low and the doctor’s professional advises are performed unsatisfactory. Therefore, the parents’awareness of well baby checking should be improved.