Tucker Quinn, Sege Robert, Stephens Allison, Suthar Twinkle, Purdue Eliza Loren, Browne Charlyn Harper, Burstein Dina
Center for Community-Engaged Medicine, Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA.
Tufts University, Medford, MA; and.
J Dev Behav Pediatr. 2025 Jun 17;46(3):e292-e299. doi: 10.1097/DBP.0000000000001363.
The authors aimed to understand the experience of parents and caregivers during COVID-19, including the challenges they faced and what helped them cope using the Strengthening Families (SF) Approach and Protective Factors Framework's five factors: parental resilience, social connections, knowledge of parenting and child development, concrete support in times of need, and social and emotional competence of children.
The Family Snapshot Survey was developed to assess the impact of COVID-19 on family life, including items for quantitative analysis and 2 open-ended responses. This national survey of 9000 parents recruited from an opt-in internet panel was conducted in 3 waves of 3000 in November 2020, February 2021, and July 2021 using the online YouGov platform. The 2 open-ended responses are analyzed here using qualitative thematic analysis based on the SF Approach and Protective Factors Framework for caregivers with children aged 0 to 5 years.
The SF factors were used to classify 770 responses, with many responses identified as containing multiple factors, representing their interrelated nature. A lack of concrete support was the most frequent challenge, and parental resilience was the most frequent support.
Access or lack of access to concrete support in times of need underscored many of the strengths and challenges, respectively. Participants described interactions between individual protective factors that allowed for safety, stability, or positive experiences. In future community policy creation, policymakers may look at how programs interact and allow families to access multiple protective factors at once, with a critical need for providing these concrete supports.
作者旨在了解新冠疫情期间家长和照料者的经历，包括他们面临的挑战，以及运用强化家庭（SF）方法和保护因素框架中的五个因素——家长复原力、社会联系、育儿及儿童发展知识、在需要时的具体支持以及儿童的社会和情感能力——来帮助他们应对困难的情况。
开展了家庭快照调查，以评估新冠疫情对家庭生活的影响，包括用于定量分析的项目和两条开放式回答。这项针对从自愿参与的互联网小组招募的9000名家长的全国性调查，于2020年11月、2021年2月和2021年7月分三批进行，每批3000人，通过在线舆观平台进行。本文基于SF方法和保护因素框架，对0至5岁儿童照料者的两条开放式回答进行定性主题分析。
利用SF因素对770条回答进行分类，许多回答被确定包含多个因素，体现了它们的相互关联性。缺乏具体支持是最常见的挑战，而家长复原力是最常见的支持因素。
在需要时能否获得具体支持，分别凸显了许多优势和挑战。参与者描述了个体保护因素之间的相互作用，这些作用带来了安全、稳定或积极的体验。在未来制定社区政策时，政策制定者可以考虑各项计划之间如何相互作用，以及如何让家庭能够同时获得多种保护因素，尤其迫切需要提供这些具体支持。
