Predictors for COVID-19-related new-onset maladaptive behaviours in children presenting to a paediatric emergency department.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objective

The goal of the present study was to determine the incidence of new onset maladaptive behaviours in paediatric emergency department (PED) patients during the COVID-19 pandemic and to examine whether child and parent anxiety and parental health status were predictors for the new-onset of maladaptive behaviours.

Methods

Participants included child-parent dyads seen in a PED following the state's issuance of mandatory stay-at-home orders on 19 March 2020. A total of 351 children age 0-25 years and 335 parents enrolled in the study. Parents provided baseline demographic data and completed standardised surveys that assessed aspects of parental and child anxiety and parental health, as well as child new-onset maladaptive behaviours. Children ≥8 years of ag

SUBMITTER: Heyming TW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8242733 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature