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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.)
AUTHOR(S) Diane Seguin; Elizabeth Kuenzel; J Bruce Morton (et al.)
During the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of children abruptly moved to online schooling, which required high levels of parental involvement. Family routines were disrupted, potentially increasing parental stress, and may be reflected in greater media screen time use in children. To determine whether (1) parenting styles and (2) parenting stress were associated with children's screen time use during the pandemic compared to the pre-pandemic period.
AUTHOR(S) Minh Hieu Nguyen; Dorina Pojani; Thanh Chuong Nguyen (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Kaat Philippe; Sylvie Issanchou; Sandrine Monnery-Patris
AUTHOR(S) Alexandra D. W. Sullivan; Rex Forehand; Juliana Acosta (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Xiao Zhang
AUTHOR(S) Lisa-Marie Rau; Susanne Grothus; Ariane Sommer (et al.)
The current longitudinal observational study aimed to explore how chronic pain among schoolchildren changed before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, and how changes in chronic pain were related to changes in psychological wellbeing and COVID-19-related experiences. Data were collected from N = 777 German schoolchildren (aged 9–17 years) at two assessments before and one assessment during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. Participants self-reported chronic pain experience, anxiety, depression, and quality of life across all assessments; and COVID-19-related experiences at the last assessment. Trajectories of anxiety, depression, and quality of life as well as COVID-19-related experiences were analyzed separately for groups of stable chronic pain trajectories compared to chronic pain trajectories that changed during the pandemic.
AUTHOR(S) Louise Pigeaud; Loes de Veld; Joris van Hoof (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Punam Ohri-Vachaspati; Francesco Acciai; Robin S. DeWeese
AUTHOR(S) Ming-Te Wang; Daphne A. Henry; Juan Del Toro (et al.)
COVID-19 has led to soaring unemployment rates and the widespread adoption of working-from-home (WFH) arrangements that have disrupted family relationships and adolescent psychological well-being. This longitudinal study investigated how parental employment status (i.e., job loss and WFH) influenced adolescents' daily affect indirectly through family functioning (i.e., parent-adolescent conflict and parental warmth) and whether these links varied by family's socioeconomic status. Daily-diary approaches were used to collect dyadic parent-adolescent data from a nationwide American sample (6,524 daily assessments from 447 parent-adolescent dyads; 45% black, 36% white, 10% Latinx, 7% Asian American, 2% Native American) over the course of 15 consecutive days at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
AUTHOR(S) Jessie Pinchoff; Elizabeth Layard Friesen; Beth Kangwana (et al.)
Adolescent mental health has been under-researched, particularly in Africa. COVID-19-related household economic stress and school closures will likely have adverse effects. We investigate the relationship among adolescent mental health, adult income loss, and household dynamics during the pandemic in Kenya. A cross-sectional mobile phone-based survey was conducted with one adult and adolescent (age 10–19 years) pair from a sample of households identified through previous cohort studies in three urban Kenyan counties (Nairobi, Kilifi, Kisumu). Survey questions covered education, physical and mental health, and COVID-19-related impacts on job loss, food insecurity, and healthcare seeking. Logistic regression models were fit to explore relationships among adult income loss, household dynamics, food insecurity, and adult and adolescent depressive symptoms (defined as PHQ-2 score ≤2).
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