Parental psychological distress associated with COVID-19 outbreak: A large-scale multicenter survey from Turkey

Alperen Bıkmazer, Muhammed Tayyib Kadak, Vahdet Görmez, Uğur Doğan, Zeynep Dilara Aslankaya, Fulya Bakır, Mahmut Cem Tarakçıoğlu, İlyas Kaya, Yusuf Yasin Gümüş, İbrahim Selçuk Esin, Ali Karayağmurlu, İbrahim Adak, Ferhat Yaylacı, Barış Güller, Yaşar Tanır, Zehra Koyuncu, Nihal Serdengeçti, Çağatay Ermiş, Gül Bilgin Kaçmaz, Hatice Gülşen, Hicran Doğru, Mohammed Al Bayati, Büşra Üstündağ, Enes Gökler, Gonca Özyurt, Burak Baykara, Özalp Ekinci, Şaziye Senem Başgül, Aynur Görmez, Neslihan İnal Emiroğlu, Hakan Türkçapar and Mücahit Öztürk

International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 2021, vol. 67, issue 6, 696-704

Abstract: Aims Pandemics can cause substantial psychological distress; however, we do not know the impact of the COVID-19 related lockdown and mental health burden on the parents of school age children. We aimed to comparatively examine the COVID-19 related the stress and psychological burden of the parents with different occupational, locational, and mental health status related backgrounds. Methods A large-scale multicenter online survey was completed by the parents ( n  = 3,278) of children aged 6 to 18 years, parents with different occupational (health care workers—HCW [18.2%] vs. others), geographical (İstanbul [38.2%] vs. others), and psychiatric (child with a mental disorder [37.8%]) backgrounds. Results Multivariable logistic regression analysis showed that being a HCW parent (odds ratio 1.79, p  

Keywords: COVID 19; pandemic; mental health; parent; children (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1177/0020764020970240

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