Psychosocial factors associated with preventive pediatric care during the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Identifying the factors that predict non-adherence to recommended preventive pediatric care is necessary for the development of successful interventions to improve compliance.

Purpose

Given the substantial decline in well-child visits and influenza vaccinations, we sought to examine sociodemographic (i.e., parent age, education, employment status, child age, insurance coverage, household size, race and ethnicity, income, COVID-19 incidence in state) and psychosocial (i.e., child temperament, parent mental health, parent personality traits) factors associated with preventative pediatric care (well-child visits, influenza vaccines) during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods

As part of a larger, ongoing study, 1875 parents (96% mothers, 65% age 35 or younger, 58% w

SUBMITTER: Weston SJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8516410 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature