在COVID-19大流行期间的儿童福利:一个多队列比较和一个多信息器遗传研究
Hekmat Alrouh1,2,3, Josjan Zijlmans4,5, Michiel Luijten4,6,7
1Department of Biological Psychology, Faculty of Behavioral and Movement Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Van der Boechorststraat 7-9, Room MF-H557, Amsterdam, 1081 BT, The Netherlands. alrouh@essb.eur.nl.
Behavior genetics
|June 5, 2025
概括
随着COVID-19大流行,荷兰儿童的健康状况大幅下降,临床人群受到更大的影响. 环境因素,特别是家庭影响,在封锁期间发挥了更大的作用,尽管也注意到了评级者偏见.
科学领域:
- 发展心理学 发展心理学
- 行为遗传学 行为遗传学
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
背景情况:
- 在全球范围内,COVID-19大流行给儿童和青少年的福祉带来了前所未有的挑战.
- 了解大流行对心理健康和福祉的影响对于制定有效的支持策略至关重要.
- 纵向数据对于跟踪变化和识别随时间推移的贡献因素至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 调查COVID-19大流行对荷兰儿童和青少年福祉的影响.
- 在七个波段中检查不同队列 (一般人群和临床样本) 的幸福感变化.
- 估计在疫情期间和疫情之外对幸福差异的遗传和环境贡献,并探索评价者偏见.
主要方法:
- 利用了来自2020-2023年三个队列 (NTR,KLIK,DREAMS) 的26,555名荷兰儿童和青少年 (8-18岁) 的数据.
- 采用线性混合模型来分析福祉的变化和双胞胎模型来评估遗传和环境影响.
- 应用了心理测量模型来调查福利评估中的潜在评分者偏见.
主要成果:
- 在大流行开始时,观察到健康状况下降6.5%,只有部分恢复.
- 与一般人口样本 (NTR,KLIK) 相比,临床队列 (DREAMS) 持续显示较低的福祉和不同的人口影响.
- 在封锁期间,共享的环境因素显著增加 (60-62%),而不是封锁前/后 (45-49%),尽管评级者偏见有助于这一增长.
结论:
- 疫情对儿童和青少年的福祉产生了负面影响,临床人口面临着更大的挑战.
- 环境因素,特别是家庭和家庭环境,在疫情期间至关重要,但需要考虑评级者偏见.
- 遗传倾向和环境破坏对于在危机期间支持儿童福祉至关重要.
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