School readiness losses during the COVID-19 outbreak. A comparison of two cohorts of young children.
Child Dev
; 93(4): 910-924, 2022 07.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1706293
ABSTRACT
The COVID-19 context has created the most severe disruption to education systems in recent history. Its impact on child development was estimated comparing two cohorts of 4- to 6-year-old Uruguayan children control (n = 34,355, 48.87% girls) and COVID cohort (n = 30,158, 48.95% girls) assessed between 2018 and 2020 in three waves, by a routinely administered school readiness instrument in public preschools. Ethnicity information is not available. For the COVID cohort, losses were observed in Motor and Cognitive development, Attitudes towards learning, and Internalizing behavior (range 0.13 - 0.27 SD). Losses were less pronounced among children from higher socioeconomic schools. These results extend the literature on the consequences of the pandemic on learning and early child development.
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International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
COVID-19
Type of study:
Cohort study
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
Limits:
Child
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Child, preschool
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Language:
English
Journal:
Child Dev
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Cdev.13738
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