Parents' anxiety and stress about their children returning to school during the Pandemic of Coviod19

khalifa, sanaa mostafa; Mostafa Abd Elzaher, Omima; Elsayed Yousef, Youssria; Shehata Mohamed, Hosnia

doi:10.21608/pssjn.2022.83876.1122

	Parents' anxiety and stress about their children returning to school during the Pandemic of Coviod19
Port Said Scientific Journal of Nursing
Article 8, Volume 9, Issue 1, April 2022, Page 219-239 PDF (885.84 K)
Document Type: Original Article
DOI: 10.21608/pssjn.2022.83876.1122
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Authors
sanaa mostafa khalifa ¹; Omima Mostafa Abd Elzaher²; Youssria Elsayed Yousef³; Hosnia Shehata Mohamed⁴
¹psychiatric and mental health nursing
²Lecturer of Community Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Sohag University, Egypt
³Professor of Pediatric Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Sohag University, Egypt
⁴Assistant professor of Psychiatrics and Mental Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Assiut University, Egypt
Abstract
Background: The new coronavirus disease has dispersal rapidly all over the world, and the crumbling from the pandemic is still unfolding. Aim: Assess parents' anxiety and stress about their children returning to school during the pandemic of Coviod19. Subjects and method: Design:- Correlational descriptive designs. Setting: the study was conduct at assiut governorate six educational district were selected randomly among eleven educational district affiliated to Ministry of Education. Subjects: Purposive and convenience sampling, consists of 310 parents. Tools: Demographic characteristics, The Coronavirus Anxiety Scale (CAS), Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale - (DASS-21) and The Impact of Event Scale (IES) were used to collect study data. Results: The detection rates of dysfunctional anxiety associated with the coronavirus crisis, subjective distress related to a specific event and stress in children’ parents. There were a positive proportional relationship between parents’ anxiety, dysfunctional distress and parents’ stress. Parental gender and occupation were significant predictor factors of parents’ CAS score. Conclusion: More than half had severe stress from COVID-19 pandemic. There is a statistically significant difference between anxiety and distress. Also, there is statistically significant relation between distress and stress. Recommendations: Intervention and educational program to reduce parental stress, anxiety and improving the emotional and social support of parent.
Keywords
Children; Pandemic of Coviod19; Parent's anxiety and stress


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