Table 6 Proportion of respondents that correctly identified supportive strategies for child development by gender and parent status (N = 1443).
From: Gauging knowledge of developmental milestones among Albertan adults: a cross-sectional survey
| Â | Males n = 370 n (%) | Females n = 1073 n (%) | p | Parents n = 685 n (%) | Non-parents n = 758 n (%) | p |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Children's ability to learn is not set from birth | 255 (8.9) | 754 (70.3) | 0.646 | 489 (71.4) | 520 (68.6) | 0.251 |
Children learn more from hearing someone in the same room talk than hearing someone on television | 163 (44.1) | 553 (51.5) | 0.013 | 364 (53.1) | 352 (46.4) | 0.011 |
Parents' emotional closeness with their baby can strongly influence how smart that baby becomes | 158 (42.7) | 494 (46.0) | 0.276 | 314 (45.8) | 338 (44.6) | 0.672 |
A child's experiences in the first year of life have an important impact on school performance in later years | 312 (84.3) | 945 (88.1) | 0.072 | 586 (85.5) | 671 (88.5) | 0.099 |