How Did the COVID-19 Lockdown Affect Children and Adolescent's Well-Being: Spanish Parents, Children, and Adolescents Respond

被引:8
作者
Ajanovic, Sara [1 ]
Garrido-Aguirre, Jon [1 ,2 ,3 ,4 ]
Baro, Barbara [1 ]
Balanza, Nuria [1 ]
Varo, Rosauro [1 ,5 ]
Millat-Martinez, Pere [1 ]
Arias, Sara [1 ]
Fonollosa, Jordi [3 ,6 ]
Perera-Lluna, Alexandre [3 ,7 ]
Jordan, Iolanda [2 ,8 ,9 ]
Munoz-Almagro, Carmen [2 ,9 ,10 ,11 ]
Bonet-Carne, Elisenda [3 ,12 ,13 ,14 ]
Crosas-Soler, Aina [2 ]
Via, Esther [2 ,15 ]
Nafria, Begonya [2 ]
Garcia-Garcia, Juan Jose [2 ,9 ,16 ]
Bassat, Quique [1 ,5 ,9 ,16 ,17 ]
机构
[1] Univ Barcelona, Hosp Clin, ISGlobal, Barcelona, Spain
[2] Univ Barcelona, Inst Recerca St Joan Deu, Barcelona, Spain
[3] Univ Politecn Cataluna, BarcelonaTech, Barcelona, Spain
[4] Univ Politecn Cataluna, Dept Engn Sistemes Automat & Informat Ind, B2SLab, Barcelona, Spain
[5] Ctr Invest Saude Manh, Maputo, Mozambique
[6] Networking Biomed Res Ctr Subject Area Bioengn Bi, Madrid, Spain
[7] Inst Recerca St Joan Deu, Barcelona, Spain
[8] Univ Barcelona, Hosp St Joan Deu, Pediat Intens Care Unit, Barcelona, Spain
[9] Consorcio Invest Biomed Red Epidemiol & Salud Pub, Madrid, Spain
[10] Univ Int Catalunya, Dept Med, Barcelona, Spain
[11] Hosp St Joan Deu, Mol Microbiol Dept, Barcelona, Spain
[12] Univ Barcelona, Hosp Clin, BCNatal Fetal Med Res Ctr, Barcelona, Spain
[13] Univ Barcelona, Hosp St Joan Deu, Barcelona, Spain
[14] Inst Invest Biomed August Pi i Sunyer, Barcelona, Spain
[15] Hosp St Joan Deu, Child & Adolescent Psychiat & Psychol Dept, Barcelona, Spain
[16] Univ Barcelona, Hosp St Joan Deu, Pediat Dept, Barcelona, Spain
[17] Catalan Inst Res & Adv Studies, ICREA, Barcelona, Spain
基金
欧盟地平线“2020”;
关键词
COVID-19; lockdown; children; adolescent; mental health; well-being;
D O I
10.3389/fpubh.2021.746052
中图分类号
R1 [预防医学、卫生学];
学科分类号
1004 ; 120402 ;
摘要
Background: During the COVID-19 pandemic, lockdown strategies have been widely used to contain SARS-CoV-2 virus spread. Children and adolescents are especially vulnerable to suffering psychological effects as result of such measures. In Spain, children were enforced to a strict home lockdown for 42 days during the first wave. Here, we studied the effects of lockdown in children and adolescents through an online questionnaire.Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in Spain using an open online survey from July (after the lockdown resulting from the first pandemic wave) to November 2020 (second wave). We included families with children under 16 years-old living in Spain. Parents answered a survey regarding the lockdown effects on their children and were instructed to invite their children from 7 to 16 years-old (mandatory scholar age in Spain) to respond a specific set of questions. Answers were collected through an application programming interface system, and data analysis was performed using R.Results: We included 1,957 families who completed the questionnaires, covering a total of 3,347 children. The specific children's questionnaire was completed by 167 kids (7-11 years-old), and 100 adolescents (12-16 years-old). Children, in general, showed high resilience and capability to adapt to new situations. Sleeping problems were reported in more than half of the children (54%) and adolescents (59%), and these were strongly associated with less time doing sports and spending more than 5 h per day using electronic devices. Parents perceived their children to gain weight (41%), be more irritable and anxious (63%) and sadder (46%). Parents and children differed significantly when evaluating children's sleeping disturbances.Conclusions: Enforced lockdown measures and isolation can have a negative impact on children and adolescent's mental health and well-being. In future waves of the current pandemic, or in the light of potential epidemics of new emerging infections, lockdown measures targeting children, and adolescents should be reconsidered taking into account their infectiousness potential and their age-specific needs, especially to facilitate physical activity and to limit time spent on electronic devices.
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