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      Initial Challenges of Caregiving During COVID-19: Caregiver Burden, Mental Health, and the Parent–Child Relationship

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          Research confirms that the mental health burdens following community-wide disasters are extensive, with pervasive impacts noted in individuals and families. It is clear that child disaster outcomes are worst among children of highly distressed caregivers, or those caregivers who experience their own negative mental health outcomes from the disaster. The current study used path analysis to examine concurrent patterns of parents’ (n = 420) experience from a national sample during the early months of the U.S. COVID-19 pandemic. The results of a multi-group path analysis, organized by parent gender, indicate good fit to the data [X 2(10) = 159.04, p < .01]. Results indicate significant linkages between parents’ caregiver burden, mental health, and perceptions of children’s stress; these in turn are significantly linked to child-parent closeness and conflict, indicating possible spillover effects for depressed parents and compensatory effects for anxious parents. The impact of millions of families sheltering in place during the COVID-19 pandemic for an undefined period of time may lead to unprecedented impacts on individuals’ mental health with unknown impacts on child-parent relationships. These impacts may be heightened for families whose caregivers experience increased mental health symptoms, as was the case for fathers in the current sample.

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                beth.russell@uconn.edu
                Journal
                Child Psychiatry Hum Dev
                Child Psychiatry Hum Dev
                Child Psychiatry and Human Development
                Springer US (New York )
                0009-398X
                1573-3327
                4 August 2020
                : 1-12
                Affiliations
                GRID grid.63054.34, ISNI 0000 0001 0860 4915, Department of Human Development & Family Sciences, , University of Connecticut, ; 348 Mansfield Road, Unit 1058, Storrs, CT 06269-1058 USA
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                http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7008-1887
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                1037
                10.1007/s10578-020-01037-x
                7398861
                32749568
                4153c99c-c1f6-4b45-bb09-75f6920b8356
                © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020

                This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.

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                Clinical Psychology & Psychiatry
                caregiver burden,depression,anxiety,parent–child relationship,covid-19

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