Alperen Bıkmazer1, Muhammed Tayyib Kadak2, Vahdet Görmez1, Uğur Doğan3, Zeynep Dilara Aslankaya1, Fulya Bakır1, Mahmut Cem Tarakçıoğlu4, İlyas Kaya5, Yusuf Yasin Gümüş6, İbrahim Selçuk Esin7, Ali Karayağmurlu5, İbrahim Adak8, Ferhat Yaylacı9, Barış Güller9, Yaşar Tanır5, Zehra Koyuncu2, Nihal Serdengeçti2, Çağatay Ermiş10, Gül Bilgin Kaçmaz6, Hatice Gülşen6, Hicran Doğru7, Mohammed Al Bayati8, Büşra Üstündağ8, Enes Gökler11, Gonca Özyurt12, Burak Baykara10, Özalp Ekinci8, Şaziye Senem Başgül13, Aynur Görmez14, Neslihan İnal Emiroğlu10, Hakan Türkçapar15, Mücahit Öztürk16. 1. Child Psychiatry Department, Medical Faculty, Istanbul Medeniyet University, Uskudar, Istanbul, Turkey. 2. Child Psychiatry Department, Medical Faculty, Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Fatih, Istanbul, Turkey. 3. Department of Guidance and Counseling, Faculty of Education, Mugla Sitki Kocman University, Mugla, Turkey. 4. Child Psychiatry Department, Kanuni Sultan Suleyman Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey. 5. Child Psychiatry Department, Medical Faculty, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey. 6. Child Psychiatry Department, Medical Faculty, Ondokuz Mayıs University, Samsun, Turkey. 7. Child Psychiatry Department, Medical Faculty, Atatürk University, Erzurum, Turkey. 8. Child Psychiatry Department, Erenköy Mental Health and Neurological Diseases Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey. 9. Child Psychiatry Department, Bursa Dortcelik Pediatric Hospital, Bursa, Turkey. 10. Child Psychiatry Department, Medical Faculty, Dokuz Eylül University Izmir, Turkey. 11. Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Ankara, Turkey. 12. Child Psychiatry Department, Medical Faculty, Katip Celebi University, Izmir, Turkey. 13. Psychology Department, Hasan Kalyoncu University, Gaziantep, Turkey. 14. Psychiatry Department, Medical Faculty, Istanbul Medeniyet University, Uskudar, Istanbul, Turkey. 15. Psychology Department, Social Science University of Ankara, Ankara, Turkey. 16. Psychology Department, Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Abstract
AIMS: Pandemics can cause substantial psychological distress; however, we do not know the impact of the COVID-19 related lockdown and mental health burden on the parents of school age children. We aimed to comparatively examine the COVID-19 related the stress and psychological burden of the parents with different occupational, locational, and mental health status related backgrounds. METHODS: A large-scale multicenter online survey was completed by the parents (n = 3,278) of children aged 6 to 18 years, parents with different occupational (health care workers-HCW [18.2%] vs. others), geographical (İstanbul [38.2%] vs. others), and psychiatric (child with a mental disorder [37.8%]) backgrounds. RESULTS: Multivariable logistic regression analysis showed that being a HCW parent (odds ratio 1.79, p < .001), a mother (odds ratio 1.67, p < .001), and a younger parent (odds ratio 0.98, p = .012); living with an adult with a chronic physical illness (odds ratio 1.38, p < .001), having an acquaintance diagnosed with COVID-19 (odds ratio 1.22, p = .043), positive psychiatric history (odds ratio 1.29, p < .001), and living with a child with moderate or high emotional distress (odds ratio 1.29, p < .001; vs. odds ratio 2.61, p < .001) were independently associated with significant parental distress. CONCLUSIONS: Parents report significant psychological distress associated with COVID-19 pandemic and further research is needed to investigate its wider impact including on the whole family unit.
AIMS: Pandemics can cause substantial psychological distress; however, we do not know the impact of the COVID-19 related lockdown and mental health burden on the parents of school age children. We aimed to comparatively examine the COVID-19 related the stress and psychological burden of the parents with different occupational, locational, and mental health status related backgrounds. METHODS: A large-scale multicenter online survey was completed by the parents (n = 3,278) of children aged 6 to 18 years, parents with different occupational (health care workers-HCW [18.2%] vs. others), geographical (İstanbul [38.2%] vs. others), and psychiatric (child with a mental disorder [37.8%]) backgrounds. RESULTS: Multivariable logistic regression analysis showed that being a HCW parent (odds ratio 1.79, p < .001), a mother (odds ratio 1.67, p < .001), and a younger parent (odds ratio 0.98, p = .012); living with an adult with a chronic physical illness (odds ratio 1.38, p < .001), having an acquaintance diagnosed with COVID-19 (odds ratio 1.22, p = .043), positive psychiatric history (odds ratio 1.29, p < .001), and living with a child with moderate or high emotional distress (odds ratio 1.29, p < .001; vs. odds ratio 2.61, p < .001) were independently associated with significant parental distress. CONCLUSIONS: Parents report significant psychological distress associated with COVID-19 pandemic and further research is needed to investigate its wider impact including on the whole family unit.
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