The psychological symptoms and behavioral problems of children with mothers working as medical staff in the crisis of Covid-19 outbreak in Hamadan, Iran

Frontiers in Psychiatry

Psychiatry

Roya Raeisi¹  Mansoureh Kiani Dehkordi²  Mehri Rezaei Kheirabadi³  Ali Hhasanpour Ddehkordi⁴  Mohammad Mahdi Sobhani⁵  Mahsa Movahedi⁵  Shakiba Gholamzad⁶ 

[1] Department of Pediatrics, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran;Department of Psychiatry, Psychosis Research Center, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran;Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Isfahan University, Isfahan, Iran;Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran;Social Determinants of Health Research Center, School of Allied Medical Sciences, Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences, Shahrekord, Iran;Student Research Committee, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran;Student Research Committee, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran;

关键词: COVID-19;    treatment staff;    children;    psychological symptoms;    behavioral problems;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1117785

 received in 2022-12-06, accepted in 2023-06-12,  发布年份 2023

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Background and objectivesThe purpose of this study was to investigate the psychological symptoms and behavioral problems of children with mothers working as medical staff in the crisis of Covid-19 disease in Hamadan.MethodsThis descriptive causal-comparative study was conducted on all mothers with children aged 6 to 12  years in Hamadan from September 2 to November 29, 2020. In this study, eligible individuals were selected using random sampling and were assigned to two groups of mothers working as the medical staff and the control group. The research instruments included the Child Behavior Checklist (Achenbach) and the Child Symptom Inventory-4 (CSI-4).ResultsThe results showed that the mean scores of psychological and behavioral symptoms of children in terms of group membership (group of mothers working in the medical staff and control group) had a significant difference. There was a significant difference between the mean scores of depression and aggression in children of the staff group and the control group meaning that for depression and aggression scores of children of the staff group are higher than children of the control group (p < 0.05). There was no significant difference between the mean anxiety scores and there was almost a significant difference between the attention scores of the staff group and the control group (p < 0.05).ConclusionChildren whose mothers worked as medical staff during Covid-19 show more depression, attention, and aggression problems than children whose mothers do not work as medical staff.

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