探索COVID-19限制导致儿童福祉的变化:意大利EpaS-ISS研究
Marco Giustini1, Ilaria Luzi2, Angela Spinelli3
1Environment and Health Department, Italian National Institute of Health, Rome, Italy. marco.giustini@iss.it.
Italian journal of pediatrics
|September 13, 2023
概括
COVID-19大流行对儿童的福祉产生了负面影响,他们的幸福指数 (WBS) 显著下降. 在一项大型的意大利研究中,学校关闭和财政紧张等因素加剧了这一下降.
科学领域:
- 儿童心理学 儿童心理学
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 流行病学 流行病学
背景情况:
- 有限的研究存在于COVID-19隔离对幼儿福祉的影响.
- 之前的研究经常使用小的,非代表性的样本.
- EpaS-ISS研究通过检查一大批意大利学童来弥补这一差距.
研究的目的:
- 评估COVID-19流行病对意大利学龄儿童 (8-9岁) 的习惯和行为的影响.
- 探索与流行病前时期相比,在流行病期间儿童福祉的变化.
- 确定与儿童幸福感变化相关的因素.
主要方法:
- 在意大利,给小学三年级的家长发送了一个网络问卷.
- 采用了一个代表性的集群样本设计.
- 计算了福祉评分 (WBS),并分析了与社会人口统计学变量之间的关联.
主要成果:
- 4863个家庭参与了这项研究.
- 在COVID-19大流行期间,儿童的WBS显著下降 (中位数从31到25,p<0.001).
- 恶化WBS与学校关闭的时间,女性性别,有限的户外空间,父母的高等教育和财务困难有关.
结论:
- 在COVID-19期间,家长报告的日常生活中的变化对儿童的福祉产生了负面影响.
- 特定的个人和背景变量与幸福感的下降有关.
- 这些发现对于减轻未来公共卫生危机期间的负面影响至关重要.
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