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Mothers’ daily perceived stress influences their children’s mental health during SARS-CoV-2-pandemic—an online survey

BACKGROUND: The current situation caused by the SARS-CoV-2-pandemic is associated with serious losses for everyone and has been affecting social life, politics, the economy and the media worldwide. Preventive isolation and social distancing strategies have confronted families with a large number of...

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Autores principales: Köhler-Dauner, Franziska, Clemens, Vera, Lange, Stephanie, Ziegenhain, Ute, Fegert, Jörg M.
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8208071/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34134733
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13034-021-00385-3
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author Köhler-Dauner, Franziska
Clemens, Vera
Lange, Stephanie
Ziegenhain, Ute
Fegert, Jörg M.
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Lange, Stephanie
Ziegenhain, Ute
Fegert, Jörg M.
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description BACKGROUND: The current situation caused by the SARS-CoV-2-pandemic is associated with serious losses for everyone and has been affecting social life, politics, the economy and the media worldwide. Preventive isolation and social distancing strategies have confronted families with a large number of different challenges. The current epidemic and quarantine restrictions have a verifiable influence on the emotional and social development of children and adolescents. During this ongoing situation children of parents, who already were mentally stressed, seem particularly at risk. OBJECTIVE: We aimed to assess the role of maternal daily perceived stress on children’s mental health during the SARS-CoV-2-pandemic. METHODS: An online “SARS-CoV-2-pandemic survey” was developed to assess children’s mental health since the beginning of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. To describe maternal perceived everyday stress, data from a longitudinal survey was utilized. Our survey includes elements and versions of the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire, the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire and the Perceived Stress Scale. We furthermore collected socio-demographic data. Due to our limited dependent variables we applied Tobit models for estimation. RESULTS: We found a positive and significant effect of the maternal perceived everyday stress on children’s emotional problems during the pandemic. Furthermore, results provide empirical evidence for an increase of the children's hyperactivity level dependent on the mother’s perceived stress before the SARS-COV-2 crisis. We could not find significant effects for the relationship between mother’s perceived everyday stress and the children's behavioral problems. CONCLUSIONS: Analyses illustrate the effects on children's mental distress during everyday life in the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Future research needs to identify influencing factors with regard to political, economic and social restrictions, in order to prevent children’s mental health problems.
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spelling pubmed-82080712021-06-17 Mothers’ daily perceived stress influences their children’s mental health during SARS-CoV-2-pandemic—an online survey Köhler-Dauner, Franziska Clemens, Vera Lange, Stephanie Ziegenhain, Ute Fegert, Jörg M. Child Adolesc Psychiatry Ment Health Research Article BACKGROUND: The current situation caused by the SARS-CoV-2-pandemic is associated with serious losses for everyone and has been affecting social life, politics, the economy and the media worldwide. Preventive isolation and social distancing strategies have confronted families with a large number of different challenges. The current epidemic and quarantine restrictions have a verifiable influence on the emotional and social development of children and adolescents. During this ongoing situation children of parents, who already were mentally stressed, seem particularly at risk. OBJECTIVE: We aimed to assess the role of maternal daily perceived stress on children’s mental health during the SARS-CoV-2-pandemic. METHODS: An online “SARS-CoV-2-pandemic survey” was developed to assess children’s mental health since the beginning of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. To describe maternal perceived everyday stress, data from a longitudinal survey was utilized. Our survey includes elements and versions of the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire, the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire and the Perceived Stress Scale. We furthermore collected socio-demographic data. Due to our limited dependent variables we applied Tobit models for estimation. RESULTS: We found a positive and significant effect of the maternal perceived everyday stress on children’s emotional problems during the pandemic. Furthermore, results provide empirical evidence for an increase of the children's hyperactivity level dependent on the mother’s perceived stress before the SARS-COV-2 crisis. We could not find significant effects for the relationship between mother’s perceived everyday stress and the children's behavioral problems. CONCLUSIONS: Analyses illustrate the effects on children's mental distress during everyday life in the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Future research needs to identify influencing factors with regard to political, economic and social restrictions, in order to prevent children’s mental health problems. BioMed Central 2021-06-16 /pmc/articles/PMC8208071/ /pubmed/34134733 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13034-021-00385-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis 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.
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Köhler-Dauner, Franziska
Clemens, Vera
Lange, Stephanie
Ziegenhain, Ute
Fegert, Jörg M.
Mothers’ daily perceived stress influences their children’s mental health during SARS-CoV-2-pandemic—an online survey
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title_full_unstemmed Mothers’ daily perceived stress influences their children’s mental health during SARS-CoV-2-pandemic—an online survey
title_short Mothers’ daily perceived stress influences their children’s mental health during SARS-CoV-2-pandemic—an online survey
title_sort mothers’ daily perceived stress influences their children’s mental health during sars-cov-2-pandemic—an online survey
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8208071/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34134733
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13034-021-00385-3
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