Impact of quarantine on the experience and management of children with learning disabilities or attention deficit disorders with or without hyperactivity: A retrospective observational study.

Autor: Pacteau C; Université de Caen Normandie, UFR Santé, Pôle des formations et de recherche en santé, 2 rue des Rochambelles CS 14032, 14032 Caen Cedex 5, France. Electronic address: chloe.pacteau@gmail.com., Nadin L; Université de Caen Normandie, UFR Santé, Pôle des formations et de recherche en santé, 2 rue des Rochambelles CS 14032, 14032 Caen Cedex 5, France., Mette FC; Centre de Médecine Physique et de Réadaptation pour enfants La Clairière, 246 rue Jacques Prévert, 61100 Flers, France.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Archives de pediatrie : organe officiel de la Societe francaise de pediatrie [Arch Pediatr] 2024 May; Vol. 31 (4), pp. 224-230. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Mar 26.
DOI: 10.1016/j.arcped.2023.10.011
Abstrakt: Background: During the COVID-19 pandemic, France faced a 2-month lockdown in 2020, marked by numerous restrictions. This study aimed to examine the experience and management of children aged 6-17 years with learning and/or attention disorders during the first lockdown.
Methods: We conducted an observational, retrospective study, with data collection from March 1 to May 31, 2021, by means of an anonymous digital qualitative questionnaire completed by parents. The experience of confinement as well as the children's behavior, schooling, and level of progress during rehabilitation were assessed by parents through a Likert scale. Data were compared according to two groups: negative experience and positive or neutral experience of the child's confinement.
Results: A total of 251 questionnaires were collected and 217 were analyzed. Overall, 47 children (21.7 %) reported a negative experience of the confinement period. In total, 164 (75.6 %) of the children had their schooling monitored throughout the period; half of the parents reported a course format unsuited to their child's disorders and a lack of motivation, and 46.5 % a refusal by their child to study. Only 16.8 % of parents reported a regression in their child's rehabilitation. These last three results were significantly associated with a poor experience of confinement (p < 0.05).
Conclusion: The period of confinement was experienced relatively well by the children, and the rehabilitative management seemed to have been minimally impacted during this period. The therapeutic education of children, their parents, and also teachers is a major axis of improvement for better care and support of children with these disorders.
Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest None.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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