The Short- and Long-Term Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown on Child Maltreatment

doi:10.3390/ijerph19063350

	The Short- and Long-Term Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown on Child Maltreatment
	Long, Mengqing 1; Huang, Jia1,2,3 ; Peng, Yishun 4; Mai, Yawen 4; Yuan, Xian 4; Yang, Xinhua 4,5
通讯作者	Yang, Xinhua([email protected])
摘要	Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has brought a new threat to child health and safety. Some studies suggest that social isolation and economic stress have exacerbated child abuse and neglect, whereas other studies argue that orders to stay at home are likely to promote parent-child relationships during this stressful time. Due to a lack of prospective studies including before-during-after lockdown assessments, the impacts of lockdown measures on child maltreatment are unclear. Methods: This study retrospectively investigated child maltreatment of 2821 Chinese children and adolescents from 12 to 18 (female, 59%) before, during and after lockdown, and identified risk factors. Potential predictors including socio-economic and individual mental health status were collected. Results: During Chinese lockdown, children and adolescents reported that the proportions of decrease (range 18-47.5%) in emotional abuse and neglect, physical abuse and neglect, sexual abuse, and witnessing domestic violence were greater than that of increase (range 5.1-9.1%). Compared with before lockdown (1.6%), the prevalence of sexual abuse significantly increased 8 months (2.9%) after the lifting of lockdown (p = 0.002). Being male, suffering from depression, state anhedonia, and experiencing psychotic symptoms at baseline were associated with increased sexual abuse after lockdown. Conclusions: The impact of lockdown on child maltreatment was beneficial in the short-term but detrimental in the long-term in China.
关键词	child maltreatment sexual abuse lockdown social anhedonia psychotic symptoms
	2022-03-01
语种	英语
DOI	10.3390/ijerph19063350
发表期刊	INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
卷号	19 期号:6 页码:12
收录类别	SCI
资助项目	Social Science Foundation of Hunan Province[JJ193879]
出版者	MDPI
WOS关键词	RISK-FACTORS ; MENTAL-HEALTH ; WELL ; QUESTIONNAIRE ; ADOLESCENTS ; TRAUMA ; ABUSE ; WORK
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
WOS类目	Environmental Sciences ; Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
WOS记录号	WOS:000775374500001
资助机构	Social Science Foundation of Hunan Province
引用统计	被引频次：9[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.psych.ac.cn/handle/311026/42370
专题	中国科学院心理健康重点实验室
通讯作者	Yang, Xinhua
作者单位	1.Hunan Agr Univ, Dept Psychol, Changsha 410128, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Psychol, Neuropsychol & Appl Cognit Neurosci Lab, CAS Key Lab Mental Hlth, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China 3.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Dept Psychol, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China 4.Shanghai Changning Mental Hlth Ctr, Shanghai 200335, Peoples R China 5.Kings Coll London, Ctr Affect Disorders, Inst Psychiat Psychol & Neurosci, Psychol Med, London SE5 8AF, England
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Long, Mengqing,Huang, Jia,Peng, Yishun,et al. The Short- and Long-Term Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown on Child Maltreatment[J]. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH,2022,19(6):12.
APA	Long, Mengqing,Huang, Jia,Peng, Yishun,Mai, Yawen,Yuan, Xian,&Yang, Xinhua.(2022).The Short- and Long-Term Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown on Child Maltreatment.INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH,19(6),12.
MLA	Long, Mengqing,et al."The Short- and Long-Term Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown on Child Maltreatment".INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 19.6(2022):12.