Abstract

Objective: The study has been conducted to examine anxiety and knowledge levels of mothers whose infants aged

0-24 months regarding development at infancy according to some variables.

Material and Methods: The study was conducted with 102 mothers whose infants aged 0-24 months and their

gestational week was at least 37, who were consulted at a Hospital’s Child Health Surveillance Clinic and agreed to

participate in the research. Mothers completed the “Family Information Form”, “The Caregiver Knowledge of Child

Development Inventory (CKCDI)”, “Trait Anxiety Scale” which is part of “State and Trait Anxiety Scale”. In order to

analyze variables, “Shapiro-Wilk”, “ANOVA”, “t-test” and “Tukey’s test” were used.

Results: Of 63.7% mothers stated that they do not have enough knowledge about their children’s development and

62.7% of all mothers also mentioned that they read written materials such as book/magazine/booklet about child

development. It is found that mothers who read written materials have more knowledge about child development in

comparison with mothers who do not read. Also, mothers who have more knowledge about child development had

lower anxiety level.

Conclusion: According to the findings obtained from the study, it is necessary to plan studies to enhace mothers’

knowledge level about child development prepare training programs and to disseminate these programs, and to increase






the number of specialists who work with parents

Keywords: Anxiety, Child development, Infancy

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Şahinöz A. Assessment of Mothers’ Knowledge and Anxiety Levels About Developmenta At Infancy. Turk J Pediatr Dis [Internet]. 2020 May 29 [cited 2025 May 24];14(3):249-57. Available from: https://turkjpediatrdis.org/article/view/693