By Elizabeth Hlavinka, MedPage Today, July 27, 2002
As COVID-19 infections ravaged the country from March to June, parent and child well-being felt the ripple effects, according to a national survey.
Among 1,011 parents who responded to the survey, 26.9% said their mental health had worsened, 14.3% said their children's behavioral health had declined, and 9.6% said both their mental health and their children's behavioral health had slumped, reported Stephen W. Patrick, MD, MPH, of the Vanderbilt Center for Child Health Policy in Nashville, and colleagues.
Nearly half of these families reporting declines in parental and child well-being lost access to childcare (47.6%), and food insecurity also rose across the study period, they wrote in Pediatrics.
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