Family Engagement in Services During COVID-19: A Mixed-Methods Study of Caregiver and Staff Perspectives

The COVID-19 pandemic created unprecedented stressors for people across the globe. Emerging literature demonstrates uneven stressors for those in underprivileged and underserved groups (Czeisler et al., 2021a; Siegel& Mallow, 2021; Srivastava et al., 2021; van Dorn et al., 2020) and families and women with children (Brown et al., 2020; Connor et al., 2020; Czeisler et al., 2021b; Stockman et al., 2021). People experienced increases in food, housing, and work instability, as well as physical illness because of COVID-19 and a multitude of mental health and substance use challenges associated with isolation and a decrease in protective factors (e.g., work, school, and activities; Czeisler et al., 2021a; Escalante et al., 2021).
Source: Journal of Pediatric Health Care - Category: Pediatrics Authors: Tags: Article Source Type: research