Abdullah Alsadan Yusr, Safwan Gassem Jumana, Mazen Dera Jumana, Mohamed Elbatanony Yara, Mohamed El Beblawy Nagham, Mansour Ibrahim
East Jeddah Hospital, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Ibn Sina College, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Ann Med Surg (Lond). 2022 Aug;80:103969. doi: 10.1016/j.amsu.2022.103969. Epub 2022 Aug 2.
COVID-19 has caused many changes in all communities world-wildly, at many levels, leaving us to reset our priorities and needs. All that for the sake of surviving this pandemic. But children played the least important role in these rearrangements, or at least this how the community handled it.
To study the precautionary measures that were taken by the parents on their children in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia during curfew. Study the impact of COVID on children's healthcare, diet, and daily routines.
A community-based cross-sectional study was conducted in different regions of Saudi Arabia from the period of 1st July 2020 to 30th January 2021. Data were compiled and analyzed using a statistical package for the social sciences (SPSS, version 16) and results were analyzed with frequencies and Chi-squared test as appropriate. P-value was considered significant if P < 0.05.
The study included 532 participants, 69.7% of participated parents were mothers (females) and 30.3% were fathers (males). 83.5% of mothers were highly educated. 41% didn't observe any change in their children's activity, the little less 37% agreed that it decreased their activity. 64.5% of the parents believed that herbal meds and supplements boost their children's immunity. 27.6% were not sure. The rest 7.9% didn't believe in their effect. 39% of the parents who had children in the age of vaccination, had to delay it, while 60% stuck to the schedule.
People sticking to precautionary measures were more relatable to what they believed not what they were forced to do the increased number of cases at the beginning of the partial curfew proves that. Even though social gathering had its financial penalty the responses were greater with hand washing.
新冠疫情在全球范围内的各个社区、各个层面都引发了诸多变化，迫使我们重新调整优先事项和需求。这一切都是为了在这场疫情中生存下来。但在这些调整中，儿童所起的作用最小，或者至少社区是这样处理的。
研究沙特阿拉伯王国宵禁期间家长对孩子采取的预防措施。研究新冠疫情对儿童医疗保健、饮食和日常生活的影响。
2020年7月1日至2021年1月30日期间，在沙特阿拉伯不同地区进行了一项基于社区的横断面研究。使用社会科学统计软件包（SPSS，版本16）对数据进行整理和分析，并根据频率和卡方检验对结果进行适当分析。如果P<0.05，则认为P值具有统计学意义。
该研究共纳入532名参与者，参与研究的家长中69.7%为母亲（女性），30.3%为父亲（男性）。83.5%的母亲受过高等教育。41%的家长表示孩子的活动没有任何变化，略少一些的37%的家长认为孩子的活动减少了。64.5%的家长认为草药和补充剂能增强孩子的免疫力。27.6%的家长不确定。其余7.9%的家长不相信其效果。在有适龄接种疫苗孩子的家长中，39%不得不推迟接种时间，而60%的家长则按计划进行。
坚持预防措施的人更多是出于自身信念，而非被迫行事，部分宵禁开始时病例数增加就证明了这一点。尽管社交聚会会面临经济处罚，但洗手的响应度更高。
