Parents’ Role in Optimizing Preschool-Age Children Vision

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10.2991/978-94-6463-132-6_34How to use a DOI?

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The role of parents; optimizing vision; preschool age children

Abstract

Background: Preschool age children’s vision is important for children’s survival, visual impairment in children will have an impact on physical, functional, social and psychological problems. The role of parents is very important in the development of children’s vision.

Aim: The purpose of this study was to describe the role of parents in optimizing the vision of preschool-aged children.

Methods: This research is a quantitative research with a descriptive analytic approach. The study was conducted in May–August 2022 on 91 parents of preschool-aged children at Sendangmulyo State Kindergarten, Semarang. The role of parents in optimizing children’s vision was obtained by using a questionnaire which included roles in the use of electronic media, reading and writing activities, and providing nutrition.

Results: The results showed that the role of parents in the activities of using electronic media, reading and writing drawing activities, and providing nutrition to children were in the good category, respectively 61.5%, 83.5%, and 69.2%

Conclusion: The role of parents in optimizing the vision of preschool-aged children is mostly in the good category (51.6%). Suggestions for mothers to increase the role of parents in terms of using smartphones, watching TV all the time, paying attention to the position of children while watching TV, reading and writing books, and paying more attention to vitamin A intake in children in an effort to optimize the vision of preschoolers.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Mariyam Mariyam
AU  - Sabrina Della Vida
AU  - Erna Sulistyawati
AU  - Amin Samiasih
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/04/19
TI  - Parents’ Role in Optimizing Preschool-Age Children Vision
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st Lawang Sewu International Symposium 2022 on Health Sciences (LSISHS 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 298
EP  - 305
SN  - 2468-5739
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-132-6_34
DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6463-132-6_34
ID  - Mariyam2023
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