
BMC Public Health, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 25(1)
Опубликована: Март 18, 2025
In an effort to improve preparation for future pandemics, researchers continue examine the myriad psychosocial pathways through which COVID-19 pandemic impacted mental health. Moving beyond extant research on factors such as financial difficulties or social isolation, we present findings two less documented pathways: (a) COVID illness and death within one's network (b) experiencing pandemic-related basic needs stressors, difficulties, health of mothers children in South Asia. Data come from 2021–2022 wave Bachpan birth cohort (6-year-old children, n = 814 mother-child dyads) rural Pakistan. Multivariable regressions were used estimate association between illness/death among family/friend/community members stressors (e.g. with food, housing, medical care) 4 outcomes: maternal anxiety (GAD-7) depression symptoms (PHQ-9), child emotional/behavioral problems (SDQ-TD) (SCAS). Maternal was independently predicted by mother's even after accounting pre-pandemic socioeconomic status, depression, stressors. Specifically, having a family member/friend who became ill associated 1.29 higher PHQ-9 scores (95% CI: 0.34, 2.24), compared those did not know anyone affected. Increased also GAD-7 levels children's behavioral/emotional anxiety. Social proximity outcomes. These provide evidence additional prolonged global events, like pandemic, can have multigenerational impacts.
Язык: Английский