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How is the COVID-19 lockdown impacting the mental health of parents of school-age children in the UK? A cross-sectional online survey
OBJECTIVE: Investigate the impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on feelings of loneliness and social isolation in parents of school-age children. DESIGN: Cross-sectional online survey of parents of primary and secondary school-age children. SETTING: Community setting. PARTICIPANTS: 1214 parents of school...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8117442/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33980516 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-043397 |
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author | El-Osta, Austen Alaa, Aos Webber, Iman Riboli Sasco, Eva Bagkeris, Emmanouil Millar, Helen Vidal-Hall, Charlotte Majeed, Azeem |
author_facet | El-Osta, Austen Alaa, Aos Webber, Iman Riboli Sasco, Eva Bagkeris, Emmanouil Millar, Helen Vidal-Hall, Charlotte Majeed, Azeem |
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description | OBJECTIVE: Investigate the impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on feelings of loneliness and social isolation in parents of school-age children. DESIGN: Cross-sectional online survey of parents of primary and secondary school-age children. SETTING: Community setting. PARTICIPANTS: 1214 parents of school-age children in the UK. METHODS: An online survey explored the impact of lockdown on the mental health of parents with school-age children, and in particular about feelings of social isolation and loneliness. Associations between the UCLA Three-Item Loneliness Scale (UCLATILS), the Direct Measure of Loneliness (DMOL) and the characteristics of the study participants were assessed using ordinal logistic regression models. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Self-reported measures of social isolation and loneliness using UCLATILS and DMOL. RESULTS: Half of respondents felt they lacked companionship, 45% had feelings of being left out, 58% felt isolated and 46% felt lonely during the first 100 days of lockdown. The factors that were associated with higher levels of loneliness on UCLATILS were female gender, parenting a child with special needs, lack of a dedicated space for distance learning, disruption of sleep patterns and low levels of physical activity during the lockdown. Factors associated with a higher DMOL were female gender, single parenting, parenting a child with special needs, unemployment, low physical activity, lack of a dedicated study space and disruption of sleep patterns during the lockdown. CONCLUSIONS: The COVID-19 lockdown has increased feelings of social isolation and loneliness among parents of school-age children. The sustained adoption of two modifiable health-seeking lifestyle behaviours (increased levels of physical activity and the maintenance of good sleep hygiene practices) wmay help reduce feelings of social isolation and loneliness during lockdown. |
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spelling | pubmed-81174422021-05-13 How is the COVID-19 lockdown impacting the mental health of parents of school-age children in the UK? A cross-sectional online survey El-Osta, Austen Alaa, Aos Webber, Iman Riboli Sasco, Eva Bagkeris, Emmanouil Millar, Helen Vidal-Hall, Charlotte Majeed, Azeem BMJ Open Public Health OBJECTIVE: Investigate the impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on feelings of loneliness and social isolation in parents of school-age children. DESIGN: Cross-sectional online survey of parents of primary and secondary school-age children. SETTING: Community setting. PARTICIPANTS: 1214 parents of school-age children in the UK. METHODS: An online survey explored the impact of lockdown on the mental health of parents with school-age children, and in particular about feelings of social isolation and loneliness. Associations between the UCLA Three-Item Loneliness Scale (UCLATILS), the Direct Measure of Loneliness (DMOL) and the characteristics of the study participants were assessed using ordinal logistic regression models. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Self-reported measures of social isolation and loneliness using UCLATILS and DMOL. RESULTS: Half of respondents felt they lacked companionship, 45% had feelings of being left out, 58% felt isolated and 46% felt lonely during the first 100 days of lockdown. The factors that were associated with higher levels of loneliness on UCLATILS were female gender, parenting a child with special needs, lack of a dedicated space for distance learning, disruption of sleep patterns and low levels of physical activity during the lockdown. Factors associated with a higher DMOL were female gender, single parenting, parenting a child with special needs, unemployment, low physical activity, lack of a dedicated study space and disruption of sleep patterns during the lockdown. CONCLUSIONS: The COVID-19 lockdown has increased feelings of social isolation and loneliness among parents of school-age children. The sustained adoption of two modifiable health-seeking lifestyle behaviours (increased levels of physical activity and the maintenance of good sleep hygiene practices) wmay help reduce feelings of social isolation and loneliness during lockdown. BMJ Publishing Group 2021-05-11 /pmc/articles/PMC8117442/ /pubmed/33980516 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-043397 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2021. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Public Health El-Osta, Austen Alaa, Aos Webber, Iman Riboli Sasco, Eva Bagkeris, Emmanouil Millar, Helen Vidal-Hall, Charlotte Majeed, Azeem How is the COVID-19 lockdown impacting the mental health of parents of school-age children in the UK? A cross-sectional online survey |
title | How is the COVID-19 lockdown impacting the mental health of parents of school-age children in the UK? A cross-sectional online survey |
title_full | How is the COVID-19 lockdown impacting the mental health of parents of school-age children in the UK? A cross-sectional online survey |
title_fullStr | How is the COVID-19 lockdown impacting the mental health of parents of school-age children in the UK? A cross-sectional online survey |
title_full_unstemmed | How is the COVID-19 lockdown impacting the mental health of parents of school-age children in the UK? A cross-sectional online survey |
title_short | How is the COVID-19 lockdown impacting the mental health of parents of school-age children in the UK? A cross-sectional online survey |
title_sort | how is the covid-19 lockdown impacting the mental health of parents of school-age children in the uk? a cross-sectional online survey |
topic | Public Health |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8117442/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33980516 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-043397 |
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