ArticleJournal of affective disorders2022
The transmission of psychological distress and lifestyles from parents to children during COVID-19.
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- Association of parent-child interactions with parental psychological distress and resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2023Article
- The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of new mothers in China: A qualitative study of mothers with infants aged 0-1 year old.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- The Psychological Impact of COVID-19 Admission on Families: Results from a Nationwide Sample in Greece.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Suicide spectrum among young people during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review and meta-analysis.EClinicalMedicine · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak had rapidly become a global health threat, and its impact on the mental health was transmitted among different populations, especially from parents to children. The study aimed to investigate Chinese parents' influence on their children, in terms of mental health and lifestyles (screen time and physical exercise), during the COVID-19.
methodsSelf-reported online questionnaires of depression, anxiety, COVID-19 related worries, physical exercise, and screen time were completed by 3471 Chinese children and one of their parents (1514 fathers and 1957 mothers), during the COVID-19 epidemic in February 2020. Path analysis was used to examine the extent of transmission of psychological distress and whether lifestyles tied to transmission.
resultsDuring the quarantine, Chinese parents' depression and anxiety both positively predicted their children's depression and anxiety; parents' COVID-19 related worries, physical exercise and screen time separately had positive effects on children's COVID-19 related worries, physical exercise and screen time; parents' depression and anxiety were positively influenced by their COVID-19 related worries, self-quarantine and quarantine of family members, relatives or friends; children's depression and anxiety positively predicted their non-suicidal self-injury and suicide ideation. Bootstrap analyses showed that parents' COVID-19 related worries and lifestyles increased children's depression and anxiety via children's COVID-19 related worries and lifestyles, as well as parents' depression and anxiety.
conclusionsWhen families face to public events, parents' psychological distress and lifestyles are related to children's psychological stress and lifestyles. Interventions of parents' psychological distress and lifestyles would improve family resilience.
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