The Impact of COVID-19 Quarantine on Children‘s Behaviors and Language

Abstract

COVID-19 pandemic has spread across the world, which considered a relative of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), with possibility of transmission from animals to human and effect each of health and economic. Several preventative strategies and non-pharmaceutical interventions have been used to slow down the spread of COVID-19. The questionnaire contained 36 questions regarding the impact of COVID-19 quarantine on children`s behaviors and language have been distributed online (Google form). Data collected after asking parents about their children behavior during quarantine, among the survey completers (n=469), 42.3% were female children, and 57.7 were male children. Results showed that quarantine has an impact on children`s behaviors and language, where stress and isolationism has a higher effect, while social relations had no impact. The majority of the respondents (75.0%) had confidence that community pharmacies can play an important role in helping families in protection their children`s behaviors and language as they made the highest contact with pharmacists during quarantine. One of the main recommendations that could be applied to help parents protection and improvement their children`s behaviors and language in quarantine condition base on simple random sample opinion is increasing the role of community pharmacies inpatient counseling and especially towards children after giving courses to pharmacists in child psychology and behavior. This could be helpful to family to protect their children, from any changing in them behaviors and language in such conditions in the future if the world reface such the same problem.

Dimensions of Remote Learning during the Covid-19 Pandemic in Minority Language Schools (The Case of Austrian Carinthia)

“…Research showed a particular problem in language acquisition in young (monolingual) children during the lockdown. Some studies linked the negative effects on language (language deve- lopment delays, memory loss, problems concentrating and describing events/ stories) to stress and isolation, while an undeniable effect was also attributed to a low family income (Kamal et al 2020). Other research focused on measuring the loss of literacy due to absenteeism, where five to six-year-olds showed a 66 % reduction in literacy (Bao et al 2020) during the closure of preschool educational institutions and the abolition of in-person learning.…”