This report provides data from 7,255 parents/carers who took part in the baseline questionnaire and 3383 parents/carers who completed the first follow up questionnaire. These participants completed the baseline questionnaire between 30/03/2020 and 06/06/2020. Each participant completed the follow-up questionnaire approximately one month after having completed their baseline questionnaires.
In this report, we examined the following questions:
- Do pandemic-related worries (parent/carer and child) differ between keyworker and non-keyworker parent/carers?
- Do parent/carer reports on their child’s pandemic-related worries
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- Differ across the whole sample between baseline and 1-month follow up
- Differ between households who have and have not had a COVID case
- Change over time for primary and secondary school-aged children between baseline and 1-month follow up
- Have there been changes in the amount of arguments within the household from baseline to 1-month follow up?
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- Across the whole sample
- Within primary and secondary school-aged children
- Are there differences in the proportion of parents/carers of primary and secondary school-aged children who are avoiding discussing COVID with their children?
- Have emotional, behavioural and restless/attentional difficulties changed over one month in lockdown?
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- Across the whole sample
- Within primary and secondary school-aged children
- Are there differences in the proportion of parents/carers who report being very stressed about particular areas of life?
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- Between parents/carers of primary and secondary school-aged children at baseline
- Between baseline and 1-month follow up
- Between baseline and 1-month follow up for parents/carers of primary and secondary school-aged children