"What happens when you get corona?": Children's questions and parental responses about the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT: Information discussed between parents and children provide a foundation for children's developing understanding of health and illness. Parents of 3-to-7-year-old children (N = 516, 62% female, 78% White) residing in the United States were recruited using Amazon's Mechanical Turk during July 29th- August 10th, 2020. We asked parents to report three questions that their children had asked about the COVID-19 pandemic and asked them to report how they responded to those questions. Children's questions focused on lifestyle changes (22%), while parental responses were often about the virus (23%). We examined the stability of content of children's questions and parental responses between the first peak and second peak of infection and death rates due to COVID-19 in the United States. The topic of

SUBMITTER: Hernandez GT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12360530 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature