Parental Worrying, Family Functioning, and Quality of Life During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Discussion The high socioeconomic status sample reported healthy family functioning during the 2019 novel coronavirus pandemic. Family functioning appears to improve child HRQoL consistently, even as parental worrying increases or decreases, although increased worrying would likely decrease family functioning and child HRQoL. The inverse relationships of parental educational attainment with family functioning and child HRQoL are surprising; they may be due to pandemic circumstances and the nature of the sample being high-socioeconomic status families with middle and high school-aged children.
Source: Nursing Research - Category: Nursing Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLES Source Type: research