The effect of preschool children’s motor skills on self-care skills

ABSTRACT

The study was conducted to examine the effect the 60–72 months of preschool children’s motor skills have on their self-care skills. This is an analytical and sectional type of research. This study was conducted with aged 60–72 months of 126 preschool children between 15 March and 30 May 2019. The data were collected using the Self-Care Skills Scale-Teacher Form for Preschool Children (36–72 months) and the Lincoln Oseretsky Motor Development Test. It was found in the study that the preschool children’s motor and self-care skills were affected by the duration of stay in kindergarten. In addition, there was a positive statistically significant relationship between the children’s motor skills and self-care skills and the subscales (p < .05). It was seen that as the motor skills of the children increased, their self-care skills also increased.

KEYWORDS:

• Self-care skills
• motor skills
• preschool children

Acknowledgments

We thank the staff and teachers of the kindergarten for their help during data collection and also the kind parents who participated and also contributed to our study.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Notes on contributors

Emel Sezici is an assistant professor of the Department of Pediatric Nursing at Kutahya Health Sciences University. She received her Ph.D. in Pediatric Nursing, and her research deals mainly with childhood, early childhood development, and paediatric health care.

Deniz Done Akkaya is an research assistant of the Department of Pediatric Nursing and a Ph.D. student at Kutahya Health Sciences University. Her main fields of interest are peadiatric health care and childhood dental health.

ORCID

Emel Sezici http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6325-6607

Deniz Döne Akkaya http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2720-667X