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Parent mental health and child behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic

OBJECTIVE: Child behavior, which encompasses both internalizing and externalizing behaviors, is associated with many outcomes, including concurrent and future mental health, academic success, and social well-being. Thus, understanding sources of variability in child behavior is crucial for developin...

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Autores principales: Scheiber, Francesca, Nelson, Paige M., Momany, Allison, Ryckman, Kelli K., Ece Demir-Lira, Ö.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Ltd. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9943737/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36846210
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2023.106888
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author Scheiber, Francesca
Nelson, Paige M.
Momany, Allison
Ryckman, Kelli K.
Ece Demir-Lira, Ö.
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description OBJECTIVE: Child behavior, which encompasses both internalizing and externalizing behaviors, is associated with many outcomes, including concurrent and future mental health, academic success, and social well-being. Thus, understanding sources of variability in child behavior is crucial for developing strategies aimed at equipping children with necessary resources. Parental mental health (PMH) difficulties and preterm birth may be risk factors for child behavior (CB) problems. Moreover, not only are PMH difficulties more common among parents of preterm children, but preterm children might also be more sensitive than full-term children to environmental stressors. In this study, we examined how PMH and CB changed during the COVID-19 pandemic, how change in PMH related to change in CB, and whether preterm children were more susceptible than full-term children to change in PMH. METHODS: Parents that participated in a study prior to the pandemic were invited to complete follow-up questionnaires during the pandemic about PMH and CB. Forty-eight parents completed follow-up questionnaires. RESULTS: Our results suggested that parental depression symptoms, children’s internalizing symptoms, and children’s externalizing symptoms significantly increased, and parental well-being significantly decreased during the pandemic. Change in parental depression symptoms, but not change in parental anxiety symptoms or parental well-being, was associated with change in children’s internalizing and externalizing symptoms. Prematurity did not moderate change in PMH, change in CB, or the effect of change in PMH on change in CB. CONCLUSION: Our findings have the potential to inform efforts aimed at equipping children with behavioral resources.
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spelling pubmed-99437372023-02-22 Parent mental health and child behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic Scheiber, Francesca Nelson, Paige M. Momany, Allison Ryckman, Kelli K. Ece Demir-Lira, Ö. Child Youth Serv Rev Article OBJECTIVE: Child behavior, which encompasses both internalizing and externalizing behaviors, is associated with many outcomes, including concurrent and future mental health, academic success, and social well-being. Thus, understanding sources of variability in child behavior is crucial for developing strategies aimed at equipping children with necessary resources. Parental mental health (PMH) difficulties and preterm birth may be risk factors for child behavior (CB) problems. Moreover, not only are PMH difficulties more common among parents of preterm children, but preterm children might also be more sensitive than full-term children to environmental stressors. In this study, we examined how PMH and CB changed during the COVID-19 pandemic, how change in PMH related to change in CB, and whether preterm children were more susceptible than full-term children to change in PMH. METHODS: Parents that participated in a study prior to the pandemic were invited to complete follow-up questionnaires during the pandemic about PMH and CB. Forty-eight parents completed follow-up questionnaires. RESULTS: Our results suggested that parental depression symptoms, children’s internalizing symptoms, and children’s externalizing symptoms significantly increased, and parental well-being significantly decreased during the pandemic. Change in parental depression symptoms, but not change in parental anxiety symptoms or parental well-being, was associated with change in children’s internalizing and externalizing symptoms. Prematurity did not moderate change in PMH, change in CB, or the effect of change in PMH on change in CB. CONCLUSION: Our findings have the potential to inform efforts aimed at equipping children with behavioral resources. Elsevier Ltd. 2023-05 2023-02-22 /pmc/articles/PMC9943737/ /pubmed/36846210 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2023.106888 Text en © 2023 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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