TY - JOUR
T1 - Parental psychological distress associated with COVID-19 outbreak
T2 - A large-scale multicenter survey from Turkey
AU - Bıkmazer, Alperen
AU - Kadak, Muhammed Tayyib
AU - Görmez, Vahdet
AU - Doğan, Uğur
AU - Aslankaya, Zeynep Dilara
AU - Bakır, Fulya
AU - Tarakçıoğlu, Mahmut Cem
AU - Kaya, İlyas
AU - Gümüş, Yusuf Yasin
AU - Esin, İbrahim Selçuk
AU - Karayağmurlu, Ali
AU - Adak, İbrahim
AU - Yaylacı, Ferhat
AU - Güller, Barış
AU - Tanır, Yaşar
AU - Koyuncu, Zehra
AU - Serdengeçti, Nihal
AU - Ermiş, Çağatay
AU - Kaçmaz, Gül Bilgin
AU - Gülşen, Hatice
AU - Doğru, Hicran
AU - Bayati, Mohammed Al
AU - Üstündağ, Büşra
AU - Gökler, Enes
AU - Özyurt, Gonca
AU - Baykara, Burak
AU - Ekinci, Özalp
AU - Başgül, Şaziye Senem
AU - Görmez, Aynur
AU - Emiroğlu, Neslihan İnal
AU - Türkçapar, Hakan
AU - Öztürk, Mücahit
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2020.
PY - 2020/11/5
Y1 - 2020/11/5
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - COVID 19
KW - children
KW - mental health
KW - pandemic
KW - parent
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85095443966
U2 - 10.1177/0020764020970240
DO - 10.1177/0020764020970240
M3 - Article
C2 - 33148091
AN - SCOPUS:85095443966
SN - 0020-7640
VL - 67
SP - 696
EP - 704
JO - International Journal of Social Psychiatry
JF - International Journal of Social Psychiatry
IS - 6
ER -