A predictable home environment may protect child mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic.
A predictable home environment may protect child mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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DOI：
10.1016/j.ynstr.2020.100291
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发表时间：
2021-05
影响因子：
5
通讯作者：
Sandman CA
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作者：
Glynn LM;Davis EP;Luby JL;Baram TZ;Sandman CA
有关COVID-19大流行对青少年和成人心理健康的不利影响的信息越来越多，但对学龄前儿童的影响才刚刚出现。重要的是，人们对增强或保护幼儿免受这一流行病对幼儿情感发展的多方面和压力性影响的环境因素知之甚少。在南加州，169名学龄前儿童（平均年龄4.1岁）在全州范围内呆在家里的命令期间，用学龄前感觉检查表评估抑郁症状。母亲（46%拉丁裔）还报告了外化行为的优势和困难问卷。为了评估环境因素在儿童心理健康中的作用，我们研究了家庭收入，粮食不安全，父母的重要工作者地位和父母工作的损失，以及保护儿童的日常经验与家庭健康清单的结构。61%的家庭收入低于生活工资，50%的家庭至少有一位父母是基本工人。总体而言，学龄前儿童的抑郁和外化症状与新冠肺炎前相比有所增加。家庭惯例的做法有力地预测更好的儿童心理健康，这种保护作用持续后协变收入，双亲地位和粮食不安全，以及产妇抑郁症和压力。COVID-19疫情的压力对学龄前儿童的心理健康造成重大影响。重要的是，通过遵守家庭习惯来维持结构化、可预测的家庭环境似乎可以减轻这些不利影响，为公共卫生建议提供经验基础。
Information about the adverse effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on adolescent and adult mental health is growing, yet the impacts on preschool children are only emerging. Importantly, environmental factors that augment or protect from the multidimensional and stressful influences of the pandemic on emotional development of young children are poorly understood. Depressive symptoms in 169 preschool children (mean age 4.1 years) were assessed with the Preschool Feelings Checklist during a state-wide stay-at-home order in Southern California. Mothers (46% Latinx) also reported on externalizing behaviors with the Strengths & Difficulties Questionnaire. To assess the role of environmental factors in child mental health we examined household income, food insecurity, parental essential worker status and loss of parental job, as well as preservation of the structure of children's daily experiences with the Family Routines Inventory. Sixty-one percent of families' incomes were below the living wage and 50% had at least one parent who was an essential worker. Overall, preschoolers’ depressive and externalizing symptoms were elevated compared to pre-COVID norms. Practice of family routines robustly predicted better child mental health, and this protective effect persisted after covarying income, dual-parent status and food insecurity as well as maternal depression and stress. The stress of the COVID-19 pandemic is exacting a significant toll on the mental health of preschool children. Importantly, maintaining a structured, predicable home environment by adherence to family routines appears to mitigate these adverse effects, providing empiric basis for public health recommendations.
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