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- Title
Vulnerability pathways to mental health outcomes in children and parents during COVID-19.
- Authors
Rizeq, Jala; Korczak, Daphne J.; Cost, Katherine Tombeau; Anagnostou, Evdokia; Charach, Alice; Monga, Suneeta; Birken, Catherine S.; Kelley, Elizabeth; Nicolson, Rob; Burton, Christie L.; Crosbie, Jennifer
- Abstract
We examined pathways from pre-existing psychosocial and economic vulnerability to mental health difficulties and stress in families during the COVID-19 pandemic. Data from two time points from a multi-cohort study initiated during the COVID-19 pandemic were used. Parents of children 6–18 years completed questionnaires on pre-COVID-19 socioeconomic and demographic factors in addition to material deprivation and stress due to COVID-19 restrictions, mental health, and family functioning. Youth 10 years and older also completed their own measures of mental health and stress. Using structural equation modelling, pathways from pre-existing vulnerability to material deprivation and stress due to COVID-19 restrictions, mental health, and family functioning, including reciprocal pathways, were estimated. Pre-existing psychosocial and economic vulnerability predicted higher material deprivation due to COVID-19 restrictions which in turn was associated with parent and child stress due to restrictions and mental health difficulties. The reciprocal effects between increased child and parent stress and greater mental health difficulties at Time 1 and 2 were significant. Reciprocal effects between parent and child mental health were also significant. Finally, family functioning at Time 2 was negatively impacted by child and parent mental health and stress due to COVID-19 restrictions at Time 1. Psychosocial and economic vulnerability is a risk factor for material deprivation during COVID-19, increasing the risk of mental health difficulties and stress, and their reciprocal effects over time within families. Implications for prevention policy and parent and child mental health services are discussed.
- Subjects
COVID-19 pandemic; CHILD mental health services; MENTAL health; CHILDREN'S health; PSYCHOLOGICAL stress
- Publication
Current Psychology, 2023, Vol 42, Issue 20, p17348
- ISSN
1046-1310
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12144-021-02459-z