Effects of parental migration on Chinese children's mental health: mediating roles of social support from different sources

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yao Fu ◽  
Xiaochen Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Support ◽  
Children’S Mental Health ◽  
Children's Mental Health ◽  
Parental Migration ◽  
Different Sources

scholarly journals Effect of COVID-19 Pandemic on Children's Mental Health

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Support ◽  
Life Style ◽  
Children’S Mental Health ◽  
Children's Mental Health ◽  
Healthy Life ◽  
Healthy Life Style ◽  
Quality Diet

Objective: To summarize the effect of exposure to COVID-19 pandemic on the children's mental health Methods: We reviewed the published literature about the factors affection the children's mental health and its relation to the situation of COVID-19 pandemic. Conclusions: Social support, good quality diet and healthy life style can enhance the children's mental health during the unexpected situations facing the families during COVID-19 pandemic.

scholarly journals The Acute Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Children’s Mental Health in Southwestern Ontario

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Mactavish ◽  
Carli Mastronardi ◽  
Rosanne Menna ◽  
Kimberley A. Babb ◽  
Marco Battaglia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Support ◽  
Psychological Distress ◽  
Psychological Impact ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Children’S Mental Health ◽  
Children's Mental Health ◽  
Children And Parents ◽  
The Impact

Objective: COVID-19 is an unprecedented global crisis. Research is critically needed to identify the acute and long-term impacts of the pandemic to children’s mental health including psychosocial factors that predict resilience, recovery, and persistent long-term distress. The present study collected data in June-July 2020 to enumerate the acute impact of the pandemic on children’s mental health, including the magnitude and nature of psychiatric and psychological distress in children, and to evaluate social support as a putative psychosocial correlate of children’s distress.Method: 190 families of children aged 8 to 13 from the Windsor-Essex region of Southwestern Ontario reported on the impact of the pandemic on children’s well-being (e.g., worry, happiness); irritability; social support; and symptoms of anxiety, depressive, and posttraumatic stress disorder at baseline assessment of an ongoing longitudinal study of the COVID-19 pandemic.Results: Children and parents reported worsened well-being and psychological distress during the pandemic compared to retrospective report of pre-pandemic well-being. Children and parents also reported higher depressive and anxiety symptoms, but fewer PTSD symptoms, compared to epidemiological samples that used the same measures prior to the pandemic. Finally, child-perceived social support from family and friends was associated with lower symptom severity.Conclusions: Study findings indicate broad psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and are consistent with prior research that indicates a protective role of social support to mitigate the negative psychological impact of the pandemic.

scholarly journals Mobilising social support to improve mental health for children and adolescents: A systematic review using principles of realist synthesis

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. e0251750
Author(s):  
Annette Bauer ◽  
Madeleine Stevens ◽  
Daniel Purtscheller ◽  
Martin Knapp ◽  
Peter Fonagy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Support ◽  
Systematic Review ◽  
Protective Factor ◽  
Children’S Mental Health ◽  
Realist Synthesis ◽  
Children's Mental Health ◽  
Vulnerable Children ◽  
Trust And Reciprocity ◽  
Dynamic Relationships

Social support is a well-recognised protective factor for children’s mental health. Whilst many interventions exist that seek to mobilise social support to improve children’s mental health, not much is known about how to best do this. We sought to generate knowledge about the ways in which social support can be mobilised to improve children’s mental health. We conducted a systematic review, which followed the principles of a realist synthesis. The following databases were searched: PubMed, CINAHL, Ovid MEDLINE, PsychINFO, EMBASE, Child and Adolescent Studies, EconLit and SocINDEX. Studies were included if the age of participants was between 0 and 18 years and they evaluated or described programme theories of interventions that sought to improve children’s mental health by mobilising social support. Relevance and quality of studies were assessed, and data were extracted and analysed narratively. Thirty-three articles were included. Studies varied substantially with regard to the detail in which they described the processes of mobilising social support and expected mechanisms to improve children’s mental health. Those that provided this detail showed the following: Intervention components included explaining the benefits of social support and relationships to families and modelling friendly relationships to improve social skills. Pathways to improved outcomes reflected bi-directional and dynamic relationships between social support and mental health, and complex and long-term processes of establishing relationship qualities such as trust and reciprocity. Parents’ ability to mobilise social support for themselves and on behalf of children was assumed to impact on their children’s mental health, and (future) ability to mobilise social support. Although interventions were considered affordable, some required substantial human and financial resources from existing systems. Mobilising social support for vulnerable children can be a complex process that requires careful planning, and theory-informed evaluations can have an important role in increasing knowledge about how to best address social support and loneliness in children.

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