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AUTHOR(S) Basha Vicari; Gundula Zoch; Ann-Christin Bächmann (et al.)
This study examines how care arrangements, general and altered working conditions, and worries influenced subjective well-being at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic for working parents in Germany. Prior research suggests several reasons for declines in subjective well-being, particularly for working mothers. This study employs Pearlin's (1989) stress process model to explore the role of parental childcare, altered working conditions and amplified worries of working parents in terms of increased stressors and modified resources to cope with the extraordinary situation.
AUTHOR(S) Christina Boll; Till Nikolka
AUTHOR(S) Julia Dillmann; Özlem Sensoy; Gudrun Schwarzer (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Deborah Kurz; Stefanie Braig; Jon Genuneit (et al.)
The measures against the COVID-19 pandemic are challenging for children and parents, and detrimental effects on child health are suggested especially from lock-down measures and school closings. This study conducted a cross-sectional analysis using a population based longitudinal (birth-) cohort study (SPATZ study) conducted in the South of Germany. Data included all 6 or 7 year old children for whom a questionnaire was completed during first grade of school. Consequently, it was able to analyze children being in first grade before the first lockdown in Germany (≤ 15th March 2020), as well as children being in first grade during the pandemic (> 15th March 2020). It also conducted descriptive statistics and estimated the associations between the two time periods, before and during the pandemic, and various outcomes of child health using multivariable adjusted linear or logistic regression modeling. The analysis was stratified by gender.
AUTHOR(S) Alexander Patzin; Hans Dietrich
Vaccines against COVID-19 play a prominent role in the policies enacted to combat the pandemic. However, vaccination rates are lowest among adolescents and young adults. Therefore, research on younger individuals is needed to provide a deeper understanding of social disparities and the motives behind vaccination intentions. This study draws on a sample (N = 4079) of German high school students and graduates. Based on cross-sectional data from March to July 2021 and linear regression models, which are conditioned on personality, risk preferences, and trust, the study analyses social disparities (i.e., gender, parental education and migration background) in vaccination intentions.
AUTHOR(S) Tanja Poulain; Christof Meigen; Wieland Kiess (et al.)
School closures are an effective measure against the spread of Covid-19. However, they pose a major challenge to children, especially to those from socially disadvantaged families. The present study compared the wellbeing, coping with homeschooling, and leisure behavior of children and adolescents at two different periods of school closures in Germany. Wellbeing was also compared with wellbeing before the pandemic. Within the framework of the cohort study LIFE Child, 152 9- to 16-year-old children completed online surveys on wellbeing (KIDSCREEN-27 scales on physical wellbeing, psychological wellbeing, and peer and social support), coping with homeschooling (concentration, motivation, fun, mastering of schoolwork, fear of bad marks), and leisure behavior (TV time, computer gaming time, indoor physical activity) during two COVID-19-related lockdowns in March 2020 (t1) and in January 2021 (t2). Data from both time points were compared using mixed-effect models. Wellbeing was additionally compared with the wellbeing in 2019, before COVID-19 (t0). We also assessed the effects of the socio-economic status (SES) on all outcomes and changes between time points.
AUTHOR(S) Tobias Schroedler; Drorit Lengyel; Jürgen Budde (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Franz Neuberger; Mariana Grgic; Svenja Diefenbacher (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Anna Zychlinsky Scharff; Mira Paulsen; Paula Schaefer (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Inga Simm; Ursula Winklhofer; Thorsten Naab (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Karel Kostev; Kerstin Weber; Steffi Riedel-Heller (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Mira Paulsen; Anna Zychlinsky Scharff; Kristof de Cassan (et al.)
The coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) pandemic affects students in a myriad of different ways. Our prospective, longitudinal study in a cohort of students in Hannover, Germany explores behavioral patterns during escalating COVID-19 restrictions. 777 students between the age of 9 and 20 were assessed for their activity engagement, travel patterns and self-assessed compliance with protective recommendations at six time points between June 2020 and June 2021 (3564 observations) and were monitored for SARS-CoV-2 infection by nasal swab PCR and serum antibody titers.
AUTHOR(S) Birgit Jentsch; Christine Gerber
COVID-19 infection prevention measures have enhanced risks of abuse and neglect for children and youth. Simultaneously, they have affected the practice of child protection, especially impacting the social infrastructure on which child protection work tends to rely, as well as the ability of practitioners to meet with family members face-to-face and in their homes. This article focuses on the ways in which infection prevention measures have shaped child protection plans in Germany, i.e. family support and counselling, which is accompanied by monitoring and scrutiny. The article is based on a qualitative study, in which 40 semi-structured interviews were held with first-line management representatives of German Youth Welfare Agencies between July and October 2020.
AUTHOR(S) Andrea Karoline Mohr; Constanze Laemmer; Sandra Schulte (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Jonas Wachinger; Maximilian Schirmer; Nicole Täuber (et al.)
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