Mental health & maltreatment risk of children with special educational needs during COVID-19.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Children with special educational needs (SEN) are more vulnerable during the COVID-19 pandemic with risk of poor mental wellbeing and child maltreatment.

Objective

To examine the impact of COVID-19 on the mental health of children with SEN and their maltreatment risk.

Participants and setting

417 children with SEN studying at special schools and 25,427 children with typical development (TD) studying at mainstream schools completed an online survey in April 2020 in Hong Kong during school closures due to COVID-19.

Method

Emotional/behavioural difficulties, quality of life and parental stress of children with SEN were compared with typically developed children using mixed effect model. Linear regression analyses were performed to explore factors associ

SUBMITTER: Tso WWY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8743505 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature