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Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Children and Adolescents with Neuropsychiatric Disorders: Emotional/Behavioral Symptoms and Parental Stress

The objective of our study was to evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the emotional and behavioral symptoms in minors with neuropsychiatric disorders and on parental stress through a standardized neuropsychological assessment, comparing the data collected before the pandemic with those c...

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Autores principales: Operto, Francesca Felicia, Coppola, Giangennaro, Vivenzio, Valentina, Scuoppo, Chiara, Padovano, Chiara, de Simone, Valeria, Rinaldi, Rosetta, Belfiore, Gilda, Sica, Gianpiero, Morcaldi, Lucia, D’Onofrio, Floriana, Olivieri, Miriam, Donadio, Serena, Roccella, Michele, Carotenuto, Marco, Viggiano, Andrea, Pastorino, Grazia Maria Giovanna
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8997638/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35409479
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19073795
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author Operto, Francesca Felicia
Coppola, Giangennaro
Vivenzio, Valentina
Scuoppo, Chiara
Padovano, Chiara
de Simone, Valeria
Rinaldi, Rosetta
Belfiore, Gilda
Sica, Gianpiero
Morcaldi, Lucia
D’Onofrio, Floriana
Olivieri, Miriam
Donadio, Serena
Roccella, Michele
Carotenuto, Marco
Viggiano, Andrea
Pastorino, Grazia Maria Giovanna
author_facet Operto, Francesca Felicia
Coppola, Giangennaro
Vivenzio, Valentina
Scuoppo, Chiara
Padovano, Chiara
de Simone, Valeria
Rinaldi, Rosetta
Belfiore, Gilda
Sica, Gianpiero
Morcaldi, Lucia
D’Onofrio, Floriana
Olivieri, Miriam
Donadio, Serena
Roccella, Michele
Carotenuto, Marco
Viggiano, Andrea
Pastorino, Grazia Maria Giovanna
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description The objective of our study was to evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the emotional and behavioral symptoms in minors with neuropsychiatric disorders and on parental stress through a standardized neuropsychological assessment, comparing the data collected before the pandemic with those collected during the lock-down. Another goal of our study was to analyze the relationship between parental stress and behavioral/emotional symptoms in children. Our study was conducted on 383 families of patients who had already been referred at the Child Neuropsychiatry Unit of the University Hospital of Salerno for different neuropsychiatric conditions. All the parents completed two neuropsychological standardized questionnaires for the assessment of parental stress (PSI—Parenting Stress Index-Short Form) and the emotional/behavioral problems of their children (Child Behaviour CheckList). The data collected during the pandemic were compared with those collected from questionnaires administered during the six months preceding the pandemic, as is our usual clinical practice. The comparison between the mean scores of PSI and CBCL before and after the pandemic showed a statistically significant increase in all subscales analyzed in the total sample. The correlation analysis showed significant positive relationship between the subscale Total Stress of PSI and the subscales Total Problems and Internalizing Problems of CBCL. Our study suggested that the COVID-19 pandemic and the corresponding measures adopted led to an increase in internalizing and externalizing symptoms in children and adolescents with neuropsychiatric disorder. Similarly, parental stress increased during COVID-19 and ahigher level of stress in parents can be related to the internalizing symptoms of their children.
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spelling pubmed-89976382022-04-12 Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Children and Adolescents with Neuropsychiatric Disorders: Emotional/Behavioral Symptoms and Parental Stress Operto, Francesca Felicia Coppola, Giangennaro Vivenzio, Valentina Scuoppo, Chiara Padovano, Chiara de Simone, Valeria Rinaldi, Rosetta Belfiore, Gilda Sica, Gianpiero Morcaldi, Lucia D’Onofrio, Floriana Olivieri, Miriam Donadio, Serena Roccella, Michele Carotenuto, Marco Viggiano, Andrea Pastorino, Grazia Maria Giovanna Int J Environ Res Public Health Article The objective of our study was to evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the emotional and behavioral symptoms in minors with neuropsychiatric disorders and on parental stress through a standardized neuropsychological assessment, comparing the data collected before the pandemic with those collected during the lock-down. Another goal of our study was to analyze the relationship between parental stress and behavioral/emotional symptoms in children. Our study was conducted on 383 families of patients who had already been referred at the Child Neuropsychiatry Unit of the University Hospital of Salerno for different neuropsychiatric conditions. All the parents completed two neuropsychological standardized questionnaires for the assessment of parental stress (PSI—Parenting Stress Index-Short Form) and the emotional/behavioral problems of their children (Child Behaviour CheckList). The data collected during the pandemic were compared with those collected from questionnaires administered during the six months preceding the pandemic, as is our usual clinical practice. The comparison between the mean scores of PSI and CBCL before and after the pandemic showed a statistically significant increase in all subscales analyzed in the total sample. The correlation analysis showed significant positive relationship between the subscale Total Stress of PSI and the subscales Total Problems and Internalizing Problems of CBCL. Our study suggested that the COVID-19 pandemic and the corresponding measures adopted led to an increase in internalizing and externalizing symptoms in children and adolescents with neuropsychiatric disorder. Similarly, parental stress increased during COVID-19 and ahigher level of stress in parents can be related to the internalizing symptoms of their children. MDPI 2022-03-23 /pmc/articles/PMC8997638/ /pubmed/35409479 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19073795 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Operto, Francesca Felicia
Coppola, Giangennaro
Vivenzio, Valentina
Scuoppo, Chiara
Padovano, Chiara
de Simone, Valeria
Rinaldi, Rosetta
Belfiore, Gilda
Sica, Gianpiero
Morcaldi, Lucia
D’Onofrio, Floriana
Olivieri, Miriam
Donadio, Serena
Roccella, Michele
Carotenuto, Marco
Viggiano, Andrea
Pastorino, Grazia Maria Giovanna
Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Children and Adolescents with Neuropsychiatric Disorders: Emotional/Behavioral Symptoms and Parental Stress
title Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Children and Adolescents with Neuropsychiatric Disorders: Emotional/Behavioral Symptoms and Parental Stress
title_full Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Children and Adolescents with Neuropsychiatric Disorders: Emotional/Behavioral Symptoms and Parental Stress
title_fullStr Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Children and Adolescents with Neuropsychiatric Disorders: Emotional/Behavioral Symptoms and Parental Stress
title_full_unstemmed Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Children and Adolescents with Neuropsychiatric Disorders: Emotional/Behavioral Symptoms and Parental Stress
title_short Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Children and Adolescents with Neuropsychiatric Disorders: Emotional/Behavioral Symptoms and Parental Stress
title_sort impact of covid-19 pandemic on children and adolescents with neuropsychiatric disorders: emotional/behavioral symptoms and parental stress
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8997638/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35409479
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19073795
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