How listening to children impacts their quality of life: a cross-sectional study of school-age children during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine the association between children's quality of life (QOL) and their experience of being heard by family and/or teachers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Design

A cross-sectional study.

Settings

A randomly sampled postal survey of fifth or eighth grade children conducted in December 2020 in Japan.

Participants

Responses from child/caregiver dyads (n=700) were adjusted for complex sampling to ensure the sample's national representativeness, incorporating all regions.

Interventions

Based on the survey results, children were categorised as 'being heard' if they reported being frequently asked about their thoughts regarding the pandemic and having their thoughts and feelings considered by family, teachers or both.

Main outcome measures

SUBMITTER: Yamaguchi A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11499758 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature