ArticleChild and adolescent psychiatry and mental health2023
Easing pandemic-related restrictions, easing psychosocial stress factors in families with infants and toddlers? Cross-sectional results of the three wave CoronabaBY study from Germany.
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- Predictors of Outcomes of Parent Training Targeting Disruptive Behavior in Children Aged 4 Years at 6-Month Follow-Up: Results From a Large Prospective Cohort Implementation Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Article
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- Effects of an App-Based Intervention to Improve Awareness and Usage of Early Childhood Intervention Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Randomized Controlled Trial of the CoronabaBY Study from Germany.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Feeling the Same Strain? A Cross-Sectional Comparison Study of Fathers' Versus Mothers' Parenting Stress During the COVID-19 Pandemic.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Exploring the mental health impact of COVID-19 on parents of young children: anxiety, depression, and contributing factors.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Psychosocial stress in families of young children after the pandemic: no time to rest.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2025Article
- Correlation of screen exposure to stress, learning, cognitive and language performance in children.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2025Article
- Parenting stress and pandemic burden in families with crying, sleeping, and feeding problems during COVID-19: a case-control study.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Psychosocial stress factors in families with preterm infants during the Covid-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2025Article
- Infant Crying, Sleeping, and Feeding Problems in Times of Societal Crises: The Mediating Role of Parenting Stress on Parenting Behavior in Fathers and Mothers.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- The change of psychosocial stress factors in families with infants and toddlers during the COVID-19 pandemic. A longitudinal perspective on the CoronabaBY study from Germany.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2024Article
- Infant regulatory problems and the quality of dyadic emotional connection-a proof-of-concept study in a multilingual sample.Frontiers in child and adolescent psychiatry · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundFamilies with young children are particularly vulnerable for the stressors induced by the COVID-19 pandemic. However, studies on their psychosocial situation during the course of the crisis are still sparse.
methodsIn a comparison of three survey waves (wave I and III = high COVID-19 incidences), we cross-sectionally investigated the proportion of families (N
resultsThe number of parents with a high pandemic burden decreased over the course of the pandemic with a peak of 65.3% in wave I (significant changes except wave II versus III). Participants with high parenting stress significantly increased from 38.2% in wave I to 51.2% in wave III. The number of parents with symptoms of depression and anxiety remained constantly high with a maximum of 28.4% being affected. Infants with crying/sleeping problems increased significantly from 26.4% in wave I to 35.5% in wave III. Toddlers' emotional and behavioral problems showed a peak of 23.9% in wave III (no significant changes). Increased family conflicts were the strongest predictor for parenting stress (ß = 0.355), maternal (ß = 0.305), infants' (ß = 0.149) and toddlers' (ß = 0.216) mental health problems during the pandemic.
conclusionsPsychosocial stress factors in families with infants and toddlers remained highly pronounced and even partly increased irrespective of pandemic events. The findings suggest a staggered negative impact of pandemic-related factors on young children's mental health. Promoting infants' mental health as well as strengthening parental resources by reducing parenting stress should be a top healthcare priority in the aftermath of COVID-19. Trial registration The study was pre-registered in OSF ( https://osf.io/search/?q=tksh5&page=1 ).
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