ArticleReview of economics of the household2021
Working parents, financial insecurity, and childcare: mental health in the time of COVID-19 in the UK.
Article in Review of economics of the household, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 88 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
88 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Ethnic and socioeconomic inequalities in the mental health of children and young people with pre-existing mental health and neurodevelopmental conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review of longitudinal studies.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2026Pooled it
- Telehealth Use and Health Equity for Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Review.Telemedicine journal and e-health : the official journal of the American Telemedicine Association · 2024Pooled it
- Digital Parenting Interventions for Fathers of Infants From Conception to the Age of 12 Months: Systematic Review of Mixed Methods Studies.Journal of medical Internet research · 2023Pooled it
- The global evolution of mental health problems during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal studies.Journal of affective disorders · 2022Pooled it
- When the Bough Breaks: A systematic review and meta-analysis of mental health symptoms in mothers of young children during the COVID-19 pandemic.Infant mental health journal · 2022Pooled it
- Lived experiences of food insecurity and mental health: the role of socio-demographic inequalities.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Differences in maternal acceptance of non-national immunization program vaccines between single-child and multiple-children households a hospital-based cross-sectional study.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Productivity changes during the COVID-19 pandemic and its associated risk factors.Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health · 2025Article
- Risk perception and coping mechanisms by gender identity and education level during the COVID-19 syndemic in Spain.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Associations Between Experiences of Racial Discrimination Across the Life Course and Mental Health: Exploring Direct and Indirect Pathways.Sociology of health & illness · 2025Article
- The Work/Care Interface and Parents' Mid-Pandemic Mental Health: Inequalities at the Intersection of Gender and High-Risk Household Status.Society and mental health · 2025Article
- Parental Mental Health and Child Maltreatment in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Importance of Sampling in a Quantitative Statistical Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Article
- Financial crisis and its association with parental stress and children's mental health in Lebanon.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Structural and functional social support in UK military veterans during the COVID-19 pandemic and associations with mental health and wellbeing: a cross-sectional study.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Article
- Article
- Article
- Article
- The Socioeconomic Effect of COVID-19 Pandemic on Iranian Children: The Mediating Role of Parents' Mental Health.International journal of school health · 2024Article
- A mixed methods study of early childhood providers' perceptions of the acceptability and feasibility of parenting for lifelong Health tip sheets in Ontario, Canada.BMC health services research · 2024Article
28 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic and the policy measures to control its spread-lockdowns, physical distancing, and social isolation-have coincided with the deterioration of people's mental well-being. We use data from the UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS) to document how this phenomenon is related to the situation of working parents who now have to manage competing time demands across the two life domains of work and home. We show that the deterioration of mental health is worse for working parents, and that it is strongly related to increased financial insecurity and time spent on childcare and home schooling. This burden is not shared equally between men and women, and between richer and poorer households. These inequalities ought to be taken into account when crafting policy responses.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.