Psychological distress and related factors among caregivers of children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder during the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT: The present study examined the relationships of caregiver factors (including caregivers' age, sex and educational year), child-family interactions (caregivers' difficulties in managing children's protective behaviors against COVID-19, learning and daily performance, children's conflict with elders and siblings, and parenting styles), and children's factors (attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder [ADHD] and oppositional defiant disorder [ODD] symptoms) with psychological distress of the caregivers of children with ADHD in the COVID-19 pandemic. This study recruited 252 caregivers of children with ADHD to participate and complete a questionnaire collecting their psychological distress in the COVID-19 pandemic, demographics, difficulties in managing children's protective behaviors against C

SUBMITTER: Tsai CS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10170437 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature