A Study of the Relationships among Parents' Educational Expectation, Leisure Participation and Myopia of First Graders in Keelung Elementary Schools

• Main Authors: Chang, Ching-Yun, 張菁芸
• Other Authors: Huang, Tin-Chung
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/c9xzcr

碩士 === 經國管理暨健康學院 === 健康產業管理研究所 === 101 === Myopia prevalence has been rising among students. According to the latest estimate of the Ministry of Education, the rate of poor eyesight of the 100th academic year students was hitting a new high. Surprisingly enough, 29 percent of the first graders were found to be nearsighted. Myopia has become a serious health problem for lower-grade elementary school students. In the recent years, family structures have been changed. The trend of declining birth rates has led to the higher educational expectations from parents obviously. Additionally, whether there is sufficient leisure participation during the students’ growing-up process is also a significant health promotion issue. This study aims to examine parental educational expectations and students’ leisure participation and myopia, as a reference to promote the vision care program. This study used a cross-sectional design. Parents of first graders in Keelung elementary schools were surveyed and 524 effective responses were retrieved. The data gathered from the survey were processed with the software SPSS 12.0 to do t-test, one-way ANOVA, cluster analysis and multivariate logistic analysis. The major findings of this study are as follows: (1) parents generally held high expectations for their children’s education performance, especially for moral development and interpersonal relationship; (2) the leisure participation of students was rather low, with most of the students participating in “indoor leisure activities”; (3) parents who let their children study in private elementary schools or had higher socio-economic status generally held higher educational expectations; (4) students whose parents had better educational backgrounds and social-economic status, or who had more normal family structures participated in more leisure activities; (5) boys had a higher rate of myopia than girls; (6) parents who had higher expectations for students’ academic success took more positive attitudes toward students’ participation in leisure; (7) in terms of parental education expectations, statistical analyses performed indicted significant correlations between the statements “I ensure that my child receives regular checkups, and visual and dental care” and the predictions and classification of myopia; (8) in terms of children's participation in leisure activities, “reading comics” and “reading books and newspapers” were major predictive variables of myopia. The conclusions of the study were as follows. It has been found that there was a significant correlation between myopia, parents’ preventative measures and emphasis on students’ health, and the ways kids used eyes for near work. School education thus must strengthen the understanding and cooperation of parents to do vision care work, in order to mitigate the incidence of early-onset myopia.