Examining the consequences of the corona virus disease on children aged 2 to 9 years
Examining the consequences of the corona virus disease on children aged 2 to 9 years
Fateme Valipour Baboly,1,*Zeinab Sadat Moosavifard,2
1. BSc in Nursing, Department of Nursing, Bandar Abbas Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bandar Abbas, Iran. 2. Department of Nursing, faculty of nursing, Bandar Abbas Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bandar Abbas, Iran.
Introduction: The corona virus was first introduced to the world at the end of 2019 in the city of Wuhan, China, as an agent that attacks the respiratory system was introduced. Since the outbreak of the pandemic that the World Health Organization announced in March 2020; Governments implemented policies to reduce the spread of the virus and protect citizens. In most countries, physical distancing measures and stay-at-home requirements created unprecedented restrictions on the activities of all people. Direct or indirect exposure to pandemic diseases and their consequences causes psychological and physical problems.
Methods: In this narrative review article, published articles from PubMed, science direct, SID, magiran, CINAHL and Iran medex, Scopus, ProQuest Elsevier indexes were searched from the beginning of the corona disease outbreak in 2019 to 2021. The search was done using the keywords child parents, mental, physical, activity and COVID-19 and all related articles were studied and reviewed.
Results: In this study, among the related articles, 50 articles that had common goals and also had a suitable sample size were reviewed and reported. The findings of a study showed that 10% of the patients who received clinical counseling and the patients who were hospitalized had high levels of stress, anxiety and depression. In other studies, the level of behavioral problems and hyperactivity (35.12%) of 2-3-year-old children has shown a higher increase than mental problems (14.11%). The findings of another study showed that at this age, having quality sleep, which is between 10 and 13 hours a day, is appropriate in the current situation, and they sleep later at night and wake up later in the morning; He has also reported a decrease in their half-day sleep. In terms of comparing the activities before and after the outbreak of Corona, no difference has been seen in the case of having houses with playground facilities (the presence of green spaces).
Conclusion: The results showed that children are at risk of the consequences of the quarantine resulting from the corona pandemic and there is a need for educational planners and community therapy to plan programs, classes and online workshops to prevent the physical and psychological consequences of children.