School-Age Children's Wellbeing and School-Related Needs During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

The COVID-19 pandemic and related school closures may have disrupted school-related supports and services important to children's wellbeing. However, we lack national data about US children's wellbeing and family priorities for school-related services. We sought to determine 1) children's social-emotional wellbeing and 2) needs and priorities for school-based services in the 2021-2022 school year among a US sample of parents of school-aged children.

Methods

In June 2021, we surveyed 1504 parents of children enrolling in grades K-12 in the 2021-2022 school year participating in the Understanding America Study, a nationally representative probability-based Internet panel of families completing regular internet-based surveys (Response rate to this surv

SUBMITTER: Dudovitz RN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8813784 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature