Bai Yashuang, Fu Mingqi, Wang Xiaohua, Liu Danxia, Zhang Yanjun, Liu Chengbin, Zhang Bo, Guo Jing
Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, Peking University, 100191 Beijing, China.
Center for Social Security Studies, Wuhan University, 430070 Wuhan, China.
J Child Adolesc Trauma. 2022 Aug 26;16(3):1-10. doi: 10.1007/s40653-022-00478-x.
Children are more likely to experience maltreatment and parental conflict in a pandemic context, which can exacerbate their vulnerability to psychological disorders. The purpose of the present study was to examine mental health symptoms in children aged 0 to 10 years and consider related factors from the perspectives of maltreatment and parental conflict during the COVID-19 lockdown. Participants were 1286 parents aged 18 years and over with children aged 0 to 10 years were included. Several multivariable linear regressions were used to analyze the data. The largest variance in child mental health was explained by child maltreatment, as more maltreatment predicted higher reported psychological problems (standardized beta = 0.49, P < 0.001). Comparatively, parental conflict predicted less variance in mental health problems than maltreatment (standardized beta = 0.18, P < 0.001). Children who experienced more maltreatment experience and exposure to COVID-19 showed elevated levels of mental health symptoms (standardized beta = 0.06, p < 0.05), as did those who experienced parental conflict and pandemic exposure (standardized beta = 0.06, p < 0.05). The findings highlight that tailored programs that focus on a healthy family environment and strategic parental support services may be particularly effective in reducing children's mental health problems due to COVID-19 exposure.
在疫情背景下，儿童更有可能遭受虐待和经历父母冲突，这会加剧他们患心理障碍的易感性。本研究的目的是调查0至10岁儿童的心理健康症状，并从新冠疫情封锁期间的虐待和父母冲突角度考虑相关因素。研究纳入了1286名18岁及以上且育有0至10岁子女的父母。使用了多个多变量线性回归来分析数据。儿童虐待对儿童心理健康的方差解释最大，因为更多的虐待预示着更高的心理问题报告率（标准化β = 0.49，P < 0.001）。相比之下，父母冲突对心理健康问题方差的预测低于虐待（标准化β = 0.18，P < 0.001）。经历更多虐待以及接触新冠疫情的儿童心理健康症状水平升高（标准化β = 0.06，p < 0.05），经历父母冲突和疫情接触的儿童也是如此（标准化β = 0.06，p < 0.05）。研究结果强调，专注于健康家庭环境和战略性父母支持服务的定制项目可能在减少因接触新冠疫情导致的儿童心理健康问题方面特别有效。
