Tag Archives: Children

Effects of COVID-19 Confinement on the Household Routines Of Children

Posted on April 30, 2021 by Giorgio Bertini

This study aimed to determine how confinement affects children’s routines, more specifically their physical activity (PA) and sedentary time. An online survey was launched to assess how Portuguese children under 13 years of age adjusted their daily routines to confinement. … Continue reading →

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The impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on maternal and child undernutrition

Posted on January 19, 2021 by Giorgio Bertini

The COVID-19-related economic crisis and food- and health-system disruptions threaten to exacerbate undernutrition in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). We used three modelling tools (MIRAGRODEP, Lives Saved Tool, and Optima Nutrition Tool) to estimate impacts on child stunting, wasting, and … Continue reading →

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Lessons on Parental response to child’s isolation during the SARS outbreak

Posted on January 11, 2021 by Giorgio Bertini

To examine the needs, uncertainties, and experiences of parents during their child’s hospitalization with highly suspected severe acute respiratory syndrome (HSS), and to identify ways to improve their psychological preparedness and communication with health care professionals and their isolated children … Continue reading →

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The Impact of Social Isolation and Loneliness on the Mental Health of Children and Adolescents in the Context of COVID-19

Posted on January 11, 2021 by Giorgio Bertini

Disease containment of COVID-19 has necessitated widespread social isolation. We aimed to establish what is known about how loneliness and disease containment measures impact on the mental health in children and adolescents. For this rapid review, we searched MEDLINE, PsycInfo, … Continue reading →

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Children punish third parties to satisfy both consequentialist and retributive motives

Posted on December 1, 2020 by Giorgio Bertini

Adults punish moral transgressions to satisfy both retributive motives (such as wanting antisocial others to receive their ‘just deserts’) and consequentialist motives (such as teaching transgressors that their behaviour is inappropriate). Here, we investigated whether retributive and consequentialist motives for … Continue reading →

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The impact of unplanned school closure on children’s social contact

Posted on November 23, 2020 by Giorgio Bertini

Gaining control of an infectious disease outbreak can require making difficult decisions, particularly when infections are human-to-human transmissible. Children are often in close physical proximity at school, have less-than-perfect hygiene behaviours and have low prior immunity to many infections. For … Continue reading →

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UNICEF Covid-19 – Schools are not a driver of community transmission

Posted on November 23, 2020 by Giorgio Bertini

School closures can lead to drastically negative outcomes for children. Data from 191 countries collected from February to September 2020 show noconsistent association between school reopening status and COVID-19 infection rates. An assessment of the role of schools in COVID-19 … Continue reading →

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Psychological impacts of “screen time” and “green time” for children and adolescents

Posted on November 10, 2020 by Giorgio Bertini

Technological developments in recent decades have increased young people’s engagement with screen-based technologies (screen time), and a reduction in young people’s contact with nature (green time) has been observed concurrently. This combination of high screen time and low green time … Continue reading →

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Anxiety and Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents

Posted on October 5, 2020 by Giorgio Bertini

This review summarizes findings on the epidemiology and etiology of anxiety disorders among children and adolescents including separation anxiety disorder, specific phobia, social phobia, agoraphobia, panic disorder, and generalized anxiety disorder, also highlighting critical aspects of diagnosis, assessment, and treatment. … Continue reading →

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Prenatal Drug Exposure Affects Neonatal Brain Functional Connectivity

Posted on August 10, 2020 by Giorgio Bertini

Prenatal drug exposure, particularly prenatal cocaine exposure (PCE), incurs great public and scientific interest because of its associated neurodevelopmental consequences. However, the neural underpinnings of PCE remain essentially uncharted, and existing studies in school-aged children and adolescents are confounded greatly by postnatal … Continue reading →

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