Development of the parental attitude scale-protecting children during COVID-19 and the relationship between parental attitudes and fear of COVID-19.
Gülçin Özalp Gerçeker, Emine Zahide Özdemir, Bilge Özdemir and 1 others
PMID 34561130WHAT IT FOUND
Turkish parents reported strong COVID-19 protective attitudes, but higher fear was linked to less attention to children's mental health.
A new 24-item questionnaire may help clinicians ask families about these concerns.
Key findings
01The 24-item parental attitude questionnaire showed consistent responses and grouped into general health, mental health, and precautionary behaviors.
02Parents averaged 105.7 of a possible 120 points on the total attitude score.
03Higher fear of COVID-19 was associated with lower mental-health attitude scores, but not with general health, precautionary behaviors, or total attitude scores.
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What it does not show
The parents were recruited through social media, so parents without internet access or who did not use social media were not included. The sample was mostly mothers and mostly university-educated, so it may not represent fathers or less-educated parents. The authors state that the findings cannot be generalized to all parents. Fear and attitudes were measured at the same time, so the study cannot show that fear caused changes in attitude. The study developed and tested a questionnaire; it did not test whether using the questionnaire changes care or child outcomes. The test-retest analysis used only 20 parents.
Declared interests
The authors received no financial support and declared no conflicts of interest.
The easy way to misread this
Do not treat this as a validated tool for all parents or as proof that asking these questions improves care. It was developed in an online convenience sample of Turkish parents and not tested against clinical outcomes.