Aakriti Khajuria, Urvi Gupta, Ravinder K Gupta, Sunny Babber

BEHAVIOURAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPACT OF COVID - 19 AND LOCKDOWN ON CHILDREN AND THEIR PARENTS

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Background = COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown brought about stress and a sense of anxiety and fear all around the globe. All this led to various short term as well as long term effect on the behaviour and psychology of children and adolescents and these changes were reported by the parents and guardians of the children who also had some effect on the way they took care of their child. Therefore, we conducted a pre- structured questionnaire-based study to see the various after effects of covid -19 and lockdown on the behaviour and psychology of the children in India who visited a tertiary care hospital in Jammu. The main aim of the study was to investigate the i Aim And Objective= mpact of covid19 and lockdown on the mental health, behaviour and psychology of children and their parents by using a pre structured questionnaire. This cross sectional was conducted for a period of 3 months, from 1st jan2023 Method And Material= to 31st march 2023 using a pre structured questionnaire which was distributed to the parents of children from ages (3yrs to 15 years) attending the paediatrics department in these 3 months. Out of the total 450 parents who were provided with the questionnaire, 210 of them responded back with complete answers. Percentages of data collected was analysed and expressed in terms of percentages and proportions and their graphical representation was done by IBM SPSS 21 and quantitative data was expressed in terms of mean and standard deviation. In this study we observed that there w Result= as an increase in the use of electronic gadgets, irritability, violence, hypo activity, anxiety and depression among children while there was decrease in activity of children, their grades and ability to learn new things. Parents of children had an altered behaviour and psychology after covid 19 and lockdown and there was increase in their stress, anxiousness and hygiene while feeding the child. Conclusion=Covid 19 and lockdown has a negative impact on the psychology of children as well as their parents ,therefore there is an urgent need of planning more and more studies and to combat these psychological changes, child and adolescent mental health policies must be made by government where, psychologists, psychiatrists and paediatricians, along with NGO's and social worker volunteers must be included to conduct sessions in schools to educate both parents and children and make them aware to overcome behavioural changes post pandemic.

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