New questions about children’s rights DOI Open Access

Ágnes Lux,

Rita Richter Nunes

Intersections, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 9(2)

Published: Sept. 16, 2023

Can’t stop scrolling! Adolescents’ patterns of TikTok use and digital well-being self-perception DOI Creative Commons
Clara Virós-Martín, Mireia Montaña Blasco, Mònika Jiménez Morales

et al.

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 11(1)

Published: Oct. 30, 2024

Digital well-being, which refers to a balanced individual experience of digital consumption, has been gaining attention recently in the study effects technology use. Social networks are central debates over as social media overuse is often identified primary issue. Teenagers who spend an average three hours daily on especially draw researchers. Based statistical evidence, TikTok most popular network among young users worldwide. However, there not many platform-specific studies its adolescent well-being. One consistent gaps lack research how different aspects involved use impact adolescents' well-being app. In light this, aimed explore relationship between time spent TikTok, content and self-perception Given scientific consensus media's greater girls, this also sought examine gender differences. For that purpose, quantitative cross-sectional was conducted with 737 Spanish adolescents aged 12 18, completed online questionnaire validated scales items usage time, type Results showed significant differences consumption: girls more notably engaged beauty fashion content, while boys video games sports suggesting traditional roles still present their choices consumption. Beyond that, rather positive by teenagers observed. Despite increased associated reduced ability set boundaries limit These findings highlight need for measures such mandatory parental controls electronic devices educational programs at promoting healthy habits.

Language: Английский

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The COVID‐School and Social Responsibility: Creative Expressions of Children's Rights and Agency in Iceland During the Pandemic DOI Creative Commons
Eva Jörgensen, Signý Björk Benediktsdóttir,

Salvör Nordal

et al.

Children & Society, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: March 25, 2025

ABSTRACT This study examines children's experiences in Iceland during the COVID‐19 pandemic through their creative expressions submitted to Ombudsman for Children. Analysing 454 submissions, including narratives, drawings and videos from children aged 6–16, research identified two main themes: ‘COVID‐School’ addressing educational disruptions peer relationships, ‘Social responsibility’ reflecting engagement with health measures. Using Spray's framework of embodied, social public child dimensions, reveals how navigated restrictions while demonstrating remarkable literacy consciousness. The findings emphasise agency importance perspectives crisis responses.

Language: Английский

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Dystopia and Hope: The Interrelation of Pandemic and Ecological Discourses in Drawings by Children in Sweden During the First Wave of the COVID‐19 Pandemic DOI Creative Commons
Andrea Kleeberg‐Niepage, Johanna L. Degen, Max Kleijberg

et al.

Children & Society, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: March 25, 2025

ABSTRACT Research on young people's perspectives COVID‐19 remains limited. This qualitative serial picture analysis of Swedish children's drawings, predominately from spring 2020 ( N = 169), aimed to explore their views and meaning‐making processes. The focus was the interconnections two global crises in drawings–pandemic environmental crisis–revealing several links, such as negative emotions dystopian expectations, well a lack hope agency, yet also resistance utopian optimism for solutions. Our findings offer insights into responses contemporary implications.

Language: Английский

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Care, dying, death, and loss in children’s drawings from the Covid-19 pandemic in Sweden DOI Creative Commons
Carol Tishelman, Sofía Weiss Goitiandía, Johanna L. Degen

et al.

Death Studies, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 1 - 26

Published: April 9, 2025

Most studies gather data on children's Covid-19 experiences from proxy adults rather than children. We explore depictions of end-of-life issues in drawings created by children Sweden about their during the pandemic, generated response to an open invitation schools, teachers, culture centers, etc. a public archive art. A transdisciplinary team inductively analyzed 172 containing images care, dying, death and loss, finding qualitatively different portrayals differentiated focus (re)actors versus victims pandemic. The virus was often drawn as aggressive, active agent, while humans, including professionals, appeared reactive at loss. largest group were without identity, although some depicted themselves victims. These illustrate Covid-19-related questions, concerns, fears end life, reflecting "epistemological uncertainty" resulting This uncertainty should be addressed, for example trustworthy support making sense surrounding world, pro-active educational approaches both who are contact with them.

Language: Английский

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The voices of children and young people during COVID‐19: A critical review of methods DOI
Eva Jörgensen, Donna Koller, Shanti Raman

et al.

Acta Paediatrica, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 111(9), P. 1670 - 1681

Published: May 24, 2022

Critically review research methods used to elicit children and young people's views experiences in the first year of COVID-19, using an ethical child rights lens.

Language: Английский

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Channel-independent function of UNC-9/Innexin in spatial arrangement of GABAergic synapses in C. elegans DOI Creative Commons
Ardalan Hendi, Longgang Niu,

Andrew William Snow

et al.

eLife, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 11

Published: Nov. 15, 2022

Precise synaptic connection of neurons with their targets is essential for the proper functioning nervous system. A plethora signaling pathways act in concert to mediate precise spatial arrangement connections. Here we show a novel role gap junction protein controlling tiled GABAergic motor Caenorhabditis elegans , which axons and synapses overlap minimally neighboring within same class. We found that while EGL-20/Wnt controls axonal tiling, presynaptic tiling mediated by UNC-9/Innexin, localized at border between dorsal D-type neurons. Strikingly, channel activity UNC-9 dispensable its function patterning. While junctions are crucial system as channels, our finding uncovered channel-independent synapse

Language: Английский

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Child Rights during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Learning from Child Health-and-Rights Professionals across the World DOI Creative Commons
Eva Jörgensen, Laura Christine Wood, Margaret A. Lynch

et al.

Children, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 10(10), P. 1670 - 1670

Published: Oct. 9, 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic underscores the importance of a child rights-based approach to policymaking and crisis management. Anchored in United Nations Convention on Rights Child, 3P framework—provision, protection, participation—forms foundation for health professionals advocating children’s rights. Expanding it with two additional domains—preparation power—into 5P framework has potential enhance policies times future pandemics. study aimed (1) gather perspectives from health-and-rights specialists how rights were highlighted during early phase their respective settings; (2) evaluate usefulness assessing visibility A qualitative survey was distributed among professionals; total 68 responses analysed Atlas.ti 9 multi-disciplinary group policymakers front-line eight world regions. As framed by 5Ps, generally not safeguarded initial response negatively impacted wellbeing. Further, children lacked meaningful opportunities raise concerns policymakers. holds shape an ethical decision-making crises, both nationally globally.

Language: Английский

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What the children tell us: the COVID-19 pandemic and how the world should respond DOI Creative Commons

Rosina Kyeremateng,

Margaret A. Lynch, María Camila Pinzón-Segura

et al.

BMJ Paediatrics Open, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 6(1), P. e001481 - e001481

Published: Oct. 1, 2022

While the COVID-19 pandemic and associated mitigation measures have had a devastating impact on children youth (CY), they were rarely consulted or their views incorporated into approaches to address pandemic. The main objective of this review is present voices opinions CY relative first year pandemic, lives families, recommendations as call action adults governments. origin was an iterative consultation process involving international collective Child Health professionals specialising in Rights. recruitment articles began by soliciting written recommended members our professional organisation. We then developed search strategies which conducted two phases, with assistance medical librarians. limited that sought direct perspectives experiences regard COVID-19, published between February 2020 2021. Two phases searches identified 8131 studies for screening. Following removal irrelevant literature, 28 included final analysis. articulate detrimental health, education, protection basic needs, clearly intelligently. They make specific issues elucidate. state need accurate information targeted them. ask recognition stakeholders social actors response planning implementation processes. assert other emerging crises such climate change, must become statutory requirement local, national policy-makers. Evidence participation should specifically be reported tracked Committee Rights Child.

Language: Английский

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Adolescent co‐researchers identified the central role of social media for young people during the pandemic DOI Creative Commons
Frida Lygnegård, Maria Thell, Anna Sarkadi

et al.

Acta Paediatrica, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 112(4), P. 787 - 793

Published: Jan. 16, 2023

To test the method of engaging co-researcher adolescents in data collection and explore stated motives for their selection social media material related to COVID-19.Twenty-three adolescents, 13-19-years old, Sweden participated as co-researchers collecting from COVID-19. Specifically, they motivated field notes. Their were explored using content analysis.Adolescent understood performed task well, providing insight into exchanges during pandemic. An overarching theme motivation emerged: Social is an important tool adolescents' communication information exchange Four categories identified: Keeping track talk town; Recognition personally relevant topics; Adolescents consumers; a means expressing feelings, advice existential reflections. Co-researchers reported challenges relating quality pandemic-related available adolescents.Including young people on matters them was successful. This study also underlines need consider role crises co-produce health with meet specific needs.

Language: Английский

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The importance of child voice in trans health research: a critical review of research on social transition and well-being in trans children DOI Creative Commons
Cal Horton

International Journal of Transgender Health, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 25(3), P. 389 - 406

Published: Dec. 26, 2023

Background Trans healthcare has traditionally been dominated by the perspectives of cis clinicians, with trans and service user voices side-lined. The children are rarely centered in clinical literature, potential consequences for design, delivery evaluation pediatric services.

Language: Английский

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