The impact of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and lockdown on quality of life of healthy school aged children and adolescents

2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 164
Author(s):  
ElhamE Elsakka
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
School Aged Children ◽  
The Impact

Stuttering Impact: A Shared Perception for Parents and Children?

2019 ◽  
Vol 72 (6) ◽  
pp. 478-486 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mónica Rocha ◽  
J. Scott Yaruss ◽  
Joana R. Rato
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Treatment Approach ◽  
Individualized Treatment ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
School Aged Children ◽  
European Portuguese ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Impact

<b><i>Background/Aims:</i></b> Previous research has provided information about how school-aged children perceive their own stuttering; however, less is known about how stuttering is perceived by their parents. The ways that parents view their children’s stuttering could influence how the children themselves react to it. This study proceeds to assess how parents’ perceptions of the impact of stuttering relate to the perceptions of children. <b><i>Method:</i></b> Participants were 50 children who stutter aged 7–12 years (mean = 9.10; SD = 1.7) and their parents, recruited from different cities in Portugal. The European Portuguese version of the Overall Assessment of the Speaker’s Experience of Stuttering was administered to the children, and an adapted version of the tool was administered to their parents. <b><i>Results:</i></b> Both parents and children showed generally similar overall impact ratings, typically falling in the mild and moderate ranges. Differences were observed in families with a history of stuttering: for those families, a comparison of parents’ and children’s scores revealed, in some domains, that parents perceived the impact of stuttering to be greater than the children did, especially related with children’s reactions to stuttering and their quality of life. <b><i>Conclusion:</i></b> Knowledge about how parents perceive the impact of stuttering on their children is important because families can play a key role in helping children cope with stuttering. These findings highlight the benefits of using an individualized treatment approach for each child that focuses on their perceptions, as well as on those of the parents, in order to address negative attitudes toward children’s stuttering.

Effect of a group intervention for children and their parents who have cancer

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 575-586 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariko Kobayashi ◽  
Sue P. Heiney ◽  
Kaori Osawa ◽  
Miwa Ozawa ◽  
Eisuke Matsushima
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Posttraumatic Stress ◽  
Group Intervention ◽  
The United States ◽  
Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms ◽  
School Aged Children ◽  
Stress Symptoms ◽  
Children And Parents ◽  
The Impact

ABSTRACTObjective:Although support programs for children whose parents have cancer have been described and evaluated, formal research has not been conducted to document outcomes. We adapted a group intervention called CLIMB®, originally developed in the United States, and implemented it in Tokyo, Japan, for school-aged children and their parents with cancer. The purpose of this exploratory pilot study was to examine the feasibility, acceptability, and impact of the Japanese version of the CLIMB® Program on children's stress and parents' quality of life and psychosocial distress.Methods:We enrolled children and parents in six waves of replicate sets for the six-week group intervention. A total of 24 parents (23 mothers and 1 father) diagnosed with cancer and 38 school-aged children (27 girls and 11 boys) participated in our study. Intervention fidelity, including parent and child satisfaction with the program, was examined. The impact of the program was analyzed using a quasiexperimental within-subject design comparing pre- and posttest assessments of children and parents in separate analyses.Results:Both children and parents experienced high levels of satisfaction with the program. Children's posttraumatic stress symptoms related to a parent's illness decreased after the intervention as measured by the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder–Reaction Index. No difference was found in children's psychosocial stress. The Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy scores indicated that parents' quality of life improved after the intervention in all domains except for physical well-being. However, no differences were found in parents' psychological distress and posttraumatic stress symptoms.Significance of results:Our results suggest that the group intervention using the CLIMB® Program relieved children's posttraumatic stress symptoms and improved parents' quality of life. The intervention proved the feasibility of delivering the program using manuals and training. Further research is needed to provide more substantiation for the benefits of the program.

scholarly journals Quality of life among children from São Paulo, Brazil: the impact of demographic, family and socioeconomic variables

2010 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 631-636 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denise Ascenção Klatchoian ◽  
Claudio A. Len ◽  
Maria Teresa R. A. Terreri ◽  
Maria Odete E. Hilário
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Health Related Quality ◽  
Related Quality ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Pedsql 4.0 ◽  
The Impact

The Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory (PedsQL) 4.0 is a questionnaire that evaluates the health related quality of life of children and adolescents, considering different aspects of their development, including the physical, emotional, social and educational. We verified the impact of demographic, social, and economic factors, as well as the family situation, on the health related quality of life of a group of school children of the city of São Paulo, Brazil. The PedsQL 4.0 was applied to 240 children and adolescents aged 2 to 18 and their respective parents. More than two thirds of the families were from lower social strata (C, D, and E). A statistically significant difference was observed in scores when evaluating the health related quality of life across socioeconomic strata and we observed statistically significant differences in the emotional, social, psychosocial and total scores. The PedsQL 4.0 scores obtained through interviews were satisfactory when compared with other urban populations of children and adolescents, probably due to the homogeneity of the population studied.

Quality of Life for Parents of Children and Adolescents With Type 1 Diabetes

1998 ◽  
Vol 24 (6) ◽  
pp. 721-727 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa Spezia Faulkner ◽  
Frances Sholar Clark
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Type I Diabetes ◽  
Type I ◽  
Life Questionnaire ◽  
School Aged Children ◽  
The Family

The purpose of this study was to examine the issue of quality of life (QOL) of parents with children and adolescents with type I diabetes. Parental QOL was measured by the Parents Diabetes Quality of Life Questionnaire. Parental life satisfaction was most affected by the burden the child's diabetes placed on the family. The event having the most impact on parental QOL was the frequency of telling others about the child's diabetes. The greatest worry was that the child would develop complications from diabetes. Parents of school-aged children experienced significantly greater life satisfaction than parents of adolescents. Married parents had higher life satisfaction than those who were divorced. Metabolic control, reflected by HbA1c values, was associated with the life satisfaction of parents.

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