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AUTHOR(S) Jill Thompson; Grace Spencer; Penny Curtis (et al.)
The COVID-19 pandemic has had profound impacts on how we live our lives; yet, the implications for children and the effects on children's everyday lives have been relatively underacknowledged. Understanding children's views on COVID-19 and related restrictions on their lives provides an important opportunity to understand how children have responded to the pandemic, including the impacts on their social and emotional well-being. This study explored the experiences and perspectives of children in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic and related restrictions on everyday life. A qualitative study using semistructured online interviews with participatory drawings was undertaken between May and July 2020. Eighteen children from England and Wales, aged 7–11 years, participated in interviews.
AUTHOR(S) Yuan He; Robin Ortiz; Rachel Kishton (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Emily Hards; Maria Elizabeth Loades; Nina Higson-Sweeney (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Michael R. Sherby; Tyler J. Walsh; Albert M. Lai (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Sarah Dababnah; Irang Kim; Yao Wang (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Julia Dabravolskaj; Mohammed K. A. Khan; Paul J. Veugelers (et al.)
Children’s mental health and wellbeing declined during the first COVID-19 lockdown (Spring 2020), particularly among those from disadvantaged settings. This study compared mental health and wellbeing of school-aged children observed pre-pandemic in 2018 and after the first lockdown was lifted and schools reopened in Fall 2020. In 2018, it surveyed 476 grade 4–6 students (9–12 years old) from 11 schools in socioeconomically disadvantaged communities in Northern Canada that participate in a school-based health promotion program targeting healthy lifestyle behaviours and mental wellbeing. In November-December 2020, we surveyed 467 grade 4–6 students in the same schools. The 12 questions in the mental health and wellbeing domain were grouped based on correlation and examined using multivariable logistic regression.
AUTHOR(S) Réka Borbás; Lynn Valérie Fehlbaum; Plamina Dimanova (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Ali A. Asadi-Pooya; Hamid Nemati; Mina Shahisavandi (et al.)
This study aimed to identify the prevalence and also the full spectrum of symptoms/complaints of children and adolescents who are suffering from long COVID. Furthermore, it investigated the risk factors of long COVID in children and adolescents. All consecutive children and adolescents who were referred to the hospitals anywhere in Fars province, Iran, from 19 February 2020 until 20 November 2020 were included. All patients had a confirmed diagnosis of COVID-19. In a phone call to patients/parents, at least 3 months after their discharge from the hospital, we obtained their current status and information if their parents agreed to participate.
AUTHOR(S) Ciera Korte; Robert D. Friedberg; Tammy Wilgenbusch (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Juliana Onwumere; Cathy Creswell; Gill Livingston (et al.)
Informal (unpaid) carers are an integral part of all societies and the health and social care systems in the UK depend on them. Despite the valuable contributions and key worker status of informal carers, their lived experiences, wellbeing, and needs have been neglected during the COVID-19 pandemic. This Health Policy brings together a broad range of clinicians, researchers, and people with lived experience as informal carers to share their thoughts on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on UK carers, many of whom have felt abandoned as services closed. It focuses on the carers of children and young people and adults and older adults with mental health diagnoses, and carers of people with intellectual disability or neurodevelopmental conditions across different care settings over the lifespan. It provides policy recommendations with the aim of improving outcomes for all carers.
AUTHOR(S) Nathaniel A. Shanok; Erin Brooker Lozott; Marlene Sotelo (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Gülçin Özalp Gerçeker; Emine Zahide Özdemir; Bilge Özdemir (et al.)
During the COVID-19 pandemic, parents and children have experienced stress and fear, and the attitudes of parents toward COVID-19 need to be explored. This study aimed to develop the Parental Attitude Scale-Protecting Children during COVID-19 (PAS-CV19S) and assess its psychometric properties. This study also aimed to determine the relationship between parental attitudes about COVID-19 and fear of COVID-19.
AUTHOR(S) Elise Farley; Amanda Edwards; Emma Numanoglu (et al.)
Perceived birth experiences of parents can have a lasting impact on children. This study explored the birth and new parenting experiences of South African parents in 2020 during the Covid-19 lockdown. It was a cross-sectional online survey with consenting parents of babies born in South Africa during 2020. Factors associated with negative birth emotions and probable depression were estimated using logistic regression.
AUTHOR(S) Deborah L. McBride
AUTHOR(S) Alejandra Jáuregui; Gabriela Argumedo; Catalina Medina (et al.)
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