ArticleBulletin of the World Health Organization2021
Violence against children during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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- Food insecurity and gender-based violence against women during the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review.BMC public health · 2026Pooled it
- Global prevalence of violence against children and adolescents during COVID-19: A meta-analysis.Child abuse & neglect · 2024Pooled it
- Effects of the Attachment Video-feedback Intervention (AVI) on parents and children at risk of maltreatment during the COVID-19 pandemic.Child abuse & neglect · 2023Trial
- Sexual violence against children and adolescents: analysis in peripheral contexts in the metropolis of São Paulo, Brazil.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2026Article
- Epidemiology of interpersonal violence among Mexican children and adolescents: a national analysis of injury data from public hospitals from 2015 to 2022.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Trends in changes of family functioning during different phases of the pandemic - findings across four population-based surveys between 2020 to 2023 in Germany.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Innovate! Accelerate! Evaluate! Harnessing the RE-AIM framework to examine the global dissemination of parenting resources during COVID-19 to more than 210 million people.BMC public health · 2024Article
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- Scoping review: longitudinal effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on child and adolescent mental health.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2024Article
- Experiences of teachers and students on school closures and its consequences during the COVID-19 pandemic in Nyarugusu refugee camp, Tanzania.PLOS global public health · 2024Article
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- The Silent Victims of the Pandemic: Children During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Crisis.Turkish archives of pediatrics · 2023Article
- Ethical reporting of research on violence against women and children: a review of current practice and recommendations for future guidelines.BMJ global health · 2023Article
- Parental stress and physical violence against children during the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic: results of a population-based survey in Germany.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2023Article
- Changes in behavior and quality of life in German young children during the COVID-19 pandemic-results from the COVID kids bavaria study.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2023Article
- Adaptations and staff experiences in delivering parenting programmes and other family support services in three community-based organisations in Cape Town, South Africa during the COVID pandemic.Global public health · 2023Article
- Are Children Harmed by Being Locked up at Home? The Impact of Isolation during the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Phenomenon of Domestic Violence.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Review
- Adverse childhood experiences and global mental health: avenues to reduce the burden of child and adolescent mental disorders.Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences · 2022Article
- Have the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown affected children's mental health in the long term? A repeated cross-sectional study.BMJ open · 2022Article
- Adolescents amid emerging COVID-19 pandemic in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau: a qualitative study.BMJ paediatrics open · 2022Article
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Abstract
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has affected children's risk of violence in their homes, communities and online, and has compromised the ability of child protection systems to promptly detect and respond to cases of violence. However, the need to strengthen violence prevention and response services has received insufficient attention in national and global pandemic response and mitigation strategies. In this paper, we summarize the growing body of evidence on the links between the pandemic and violence against children. Drawing on the World Health Organization's INSPIRE framework to end violence against children, we illustrate how the pandemic is affecting prevention and response efforts. For each of the seven INSPIRE strategies we identify how responses to the pandemic have changed children's risk of violence. We offer ideas for how governments, policy-makers, and international and civil society organizations can address violence in the context of a protracted COVID-19 crisis. We conclude by highlighting how the current pandemic offers opportunities to improve existing child protection systems to address violence against children. We suggest enhanced multisectoral coordination across the health, education, law enforcement, housing, child and social protection sectors. Actions need to prioritize the primary prevention of violence and promote the central role of children and adolescents in decision-making and programme design processes. Finally, we stress the continued need for better data and evidence to inform violence prevention and response strategies that can be effective during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.
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