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2023-07-28
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International Society of Global Health
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Background
The COVID-19 pandemic had a major impact on the mental health and well-being of children with neurodevelopmental conditions (NDCs) and of their families worldwide. However, there is insufficient evidence to understand how different factors (e.g., individual, family, country, children) have impacted on anxiety levels of families and their children with NDCs developed over time.
Methods
We used data from a global survey assessing the experience of 8043 families and their children with NDCs (mean of age (m) = 13.18 years, 37% female) and their typically developing siblings (m = 12.9 years, 45% female) in combination with data from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, the University of Oxford, and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) World Factbook, to create a multilevel data set. Using stepwise multilevel modelling, we generated child-, family- and country-related factors that may have contributed to the anxiety levels of children with NDCs, their siblings if they had any, and their parents. All data were reported by parents.
Results
Our results suggest that parental anxiety was best explained by family-related factors such as concerns about COVID-19 and illness. Children’s anxiety was best explained by child-related factors such as children’s concerns about loss of routine, family conflict, and safety in general, as well as concerns about COVID-19. In addition, anxiety levels were linked to the presence of pre-existing anxiety conditions for both children with NDCs and their parents.
Conclusions
The present study shows that across the globe there was a raise in anxiety levels for both parents and their children with NDCs because of COVID-19 and that country-level factors had little or no impact on explaining differences in this increase, once family and child factors were considered. Our findings also highlight that certain groups of children with NDCs were at higher risk for anxiety than others and had specific concerns. Together, these results show that anxiety of families and their children with NDCs during the COVID-19 pandemic were predicted by very specific concerns and worries which inform the development of future toolkits and policy. Future studies should investigate how country factors can play a protective role during future crises.
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The registered version of this article, first published in Journal of Global Health, is available online at the publisher's website: International Society of Global Health, https://doi.org/10.7189/jogh.13.04081
La versión registrada de este artículo, publicado por primera vez en Journal of Global Health, está disponible en línea en el sitio web del editor: International Society of Global Health, https://doi.org/10.7189/jogh.13.04081
We would like to thank the funders for this study, the Swiss National Science Foundation (PP00P1_176722 for Andrea Samson), UniDistance Suisse, and the European Federation of Williams Syndrome. Finally, Jamal Amani Rad was supported in part by IRAN Cognitive Sciences & Technologies Council (Grant No. 9311) and Iran National Science Foundation, INSF (Grant No. 99010447 and 4003215), and Heather Nuske was supported by a career development award from the US National Institutes of Health (K01MH120509)
La versión registrada de este artículo, publicado por primera vez en Journal of Global Health, está disponible en línea en el sitio web del editor: International Society of Global Health, https://doi.org/10.7189/jogh.13.04081
We would like to thank the funders for this study, the Swiss National Science Foundation (PP00P1_176722 for Andrea Samson), UniDistance Suisse, and the European Federation of Williams Syndrome. Finally, Jamal Amani Rad was supported in part by IRAN Cognitive Sciences & Technologies Council (Grant No. 9311) and Iran National Science Foundation, INSF (Grant No. 99010447 and 4003215), and Heather Nuske was supported by a career development award from the US National Institutes of Health (K01MH120509)
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Sideropoulos V, Van Herwegen J, Meuleman B, Alessandri M, Alnemary FM, Rad JA, Lavenex PAB, Bolshakov N, Bölte S, Buffle P, Cai RY, Campos R, Chirita-Emandi A, Costa AP, Costanzo F, Des Portes V, Dukes D, Faivre L, Famelart N, Fisher MH, Gamaiunova L, Giannadou A, Gupta R, Hardan AY, Houdayer-Robert F, Hrncirova L, Iaochite RT, Jariabkova K, Klein-Tasman BP, Lavenex P, Malik S, Mari F, Martínez-Castilla P, Menghini D, Nuske HJ, Palikara O, Papon A, Pegg RS, Pouretemad H, Poustka L, Prosetzky I, Renieri A, Rhodes SM, Riby DM, Rossi M, Sadeghi S, Su X, Tai C, Tran M, Tynan F, Uljarević M, Van Hecke AV, Veiga G, Verloes A, Vicari S, Werneck-Rohrer SG, Zander E,& Samson AC. (2023). Anxiety, concerns and COVID-19: Cross-country perspectives from families and individuals with neurodevelopmental conditions. Journal of Global Health, 13, 04081. https://doi.org/10.7189/jogh.13.04081
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Facultad de Psicología
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Psicología Evolutiva y de la Educación