Staying calm, vigilant can help mitigate COVID-19 effects on children’s mental health, experts say

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The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic will likely present mental health challenges for children, according to child health experts who participated in a live panel discussion organized by Newswise. Mobeen Rathore, MD, chief of the department of pediatric infectious diseases and immunology at Wolfson Children’s Hospital, said in a teleconference that public health interventions, including social distancing …

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COVID-19 disproportionately affecting mental, physical health of families with children

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Measures to combat the spread of COVID-19 may be having a significant negative impact on the mental and physical well-being of parents and their children, according to results of a survey study published in Pediatrics. Stephen Patrick “COVID-19 and measures to control its spread have had a substantial effect on the nation’s children,” Stephen Patrick, …

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