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Changes in social behavioral developmental risks in preschool children after the first COVID-19 wave: a prospective longitudinal cohort study
- The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on social-emotional developmental risks (SE-DR) of preschool children is largely unknown. Therefore, the aim of this prospective longitudinal dynamic cohort study was to assess changes in preschoolers’ SE-DR from before the pandemic to after the first COVID-19 wave. SE-DR were assessed annually with the instrument “Dortmund Developmental Screening for Preschools” (DESK). Longitudinal DESK data from 3- to 4-year-old children who participated both in survey wave (SW) three (DESK-SW3, 2019) and SW four (DESK-SW4, 2020) from August 1 to November 30 were used, respectively. Additionally, data from previous pre-pandemic SW were analyzed to contextualize the observed changes (SW1: 2017; SW2: 2018). A total of N = 786 children were included in the analysis. In the pre-pandemic DESK-SW3, the proportion of children with SE-DR was 18.2%, whereas in DESK-SW4 after the first COVID-19 wave, the proportion decreased to 12.4% (p = 0.001). Thus, the prevalence rate ratio (PRR) was 0.68. Compared to data from previous SW (SW1-SW2: PRR = 0.88; SW2-SW3: PRR = 0.82), this result represents a notable improvement. However, only short-term effects were described, and the study region had one of the highest preschool return rates in Germany. Further studies are needed to examine long-term effects of the pandemic on preschoolers’ SE-DR.
Author: | Anika Kästner, Vanessa Sophie Ernst, Wolfgang HoffmannORCiD, Marco Franze |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:gbv:9-opus-108953 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-32877-x |
ISSN: | 2045-2322 |
Parent Title (English): | Scientific Reports |
Publisher: | Nature Publishing Group |
Place of publication: | London |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of first Publication: | 2023/04/06 |
Release Date: | 2024/03/20 |
Volume: | 13 |
Article Number: | 5615 |
Page Number: | 11 |
Faculties: | Universitätsmedizin / Institut für Community Medicine |
Collections: | weitere DFG-förderfähige Artikel |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0 International |