Impact of lockdown and school closure on children's health and well-being during the first wave of COVID-19: a narrative review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In the context of containment measures against the COVID-19 pandemic, the aims were to examine the impact of lockdown and school closures on childs' and adolescents' health and well-being and social inequalities in health.

Methods

Literature review by searching five databases until November 2020. We included quantitative peer-reviewed studies reporting health and well-being outcomes in children (0-18 years) related to closure measures' impact due to COVID-19. A pair of authors assessed the risk of bias of included studies. A descriptive and narrative synthesis was carried out.

Findings

Twenty-two studies, including high-income, middle-income and low-income countries, fulfilled our search criteria and were judged not to have an increased risk of bias. Studie

SUBMITTER: Rajmil L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8154298 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature