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Remote learning and mental health during the societal lockdown: a study of primary school students and parents in times of COVID-19
BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has brought challenges to families around the world. The prolonged school closures in Hong Kong have forced young students to stay at home and adapt to remote learning for over a year, putting their mental health conditions at risk. Focusing on primary school studen...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10246532/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37286984 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-16040-9 |
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author | Ye, Frank Tian-Fang Gao, Xiaozi Sin, Kuen-Fung Yang, Lan |
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description | BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has brought challenges to families around the world. The prolonged school closures in Hong Kong have forced young students to stay at home and adapt to remote learning for over a year, putting their mental health conditions at risk. Focusing on primary school students and their parents, the main objective of our research is to investigate the socioemotional factors and their associations with mental health conditions. METHODS: A total of 700 Hong Kong primary schoolers (mean age = 8.2) reported their emotional experiences, loneliness, and academic self-concept via a user-friendly online survey; 537 parents reported depression and anxiety, perceived child depression and anxiety, and social support. Responses from students and parents were paired to account for the family context. Structural Equation Modeling was used for correlations and regressions. RESULTS: The results of students’ responses showed that positive emotional experiences were negatively associated with loneliness and positively related to academic self-concept among students. Furthermore, the paired sample results showed that, during the one-year societal lockdown and remote learning period, the socioemotional factors were associated with mental health conditions among primary school students and their parents. Among our family sample in Hong Kong, evidence supports the unique negative association between students-reported positive emotional experiences and parents-reported child depression and anxiety, as well as between social support and parents’ depression and anxiety. CONCLUSIONS: These findings highlighted the associations between socioemotional factors and mental health among young primary schoolers during the societal lockdown. We thus call for more attention to the societal lockdown and remote learning context, especially since the social distancing practice could be “the new normal” for our society to handle the future pandemic crisis. |
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spelling | pubmed-102465322023-06-08 Remote learning and mental health during the societal lockdown: a study of primary school students and parents in times of COVID-19 Ye, Frank Tian-Fang Gao, Xiaozi Sin, Kuen-Fung Yang, Lan BMC Public Health Research BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has brought challenges to families around the world. The prolonged school closures in Hong Kong have forced young students to stay at home and adapt to remote learning for over a year, putting their mental health conditions at risk. Focusing on primary school students and their parents, the main objective of our research is to investigate the socioemotional factors and their associations with mental health conditions. METHODS: A total of 700 Hong Kong primary schoolers (mean age = 8.2) reported their emotional experiences, loneliness, and academic self-concept via a user-friendly online survey; 537 parents reported depression and anxiety, perceived child depression and anxiety, and social support. Responses from students and parents were paired to account for the family context. Structural Equation Modeling was used for correlations and regressions. RESULTS: The results of students’ responses showed that positive emotional experiences were negatively associated with loneliness and positively related to academic self-concept among students. Furthermore, the paired sample results showed that, during the one-year societal lockdown and remote learning period, the socioemotional factors were associated with mental health conditions among primary school students and their parents. Among our family sample in Hong Kong, evidence supports the unique negative association between students-reported positive emotional experiences and parents-reported child depression and anxiety, as well as between social support and parents’ depression and anxiety. CONCLUSIONS: These findings highlighted the associations between socioemotional factors and mental health among young primary schoolers during the societal lockdown. We thus call for more attention to the societal lockdown and remote learning context, especially since the social distancing practice could be “the new normal” for our society to handle the future pandemic crisis. BioMed Central 2023-06-07 /pmc/articles/PMC10246532/ /pubmed/37286984 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-16040-9 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Ye, Frank Tian-Fang Gao, Xiaozi Sin, Kuen-Fung Yang, Lan Remote learning and mental health during the societal lockdown: a study of primary school students and parents in times of COVID-19 |
title | Remote learning and mental health during the societal lockdown: a study of primary school students and parents in times of COVID-19 |
title_full | Remote learning and mental health during the societal lockdown: a study of primary school students and parents in times of COVID-19 |
title_fullStr | Remote learning and mental health during the societal lockdown: a study of primary school students and parents in times of COVID-19 |
title_full_unstemmed | Remote learning and mental health during the societal lockdown: a study of primary school students and parents in times of COVID-19 |
title_short | Remote learning and mental health during the societal lockdown: a study of primary school students and parents in times of COVID-19 |
title_sort | remote learning and mental health during the societal lockdown: a study of primary school students and parents in times of covid-19 |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10246532/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37286984 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-16040-9 |
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