Management of Children below 12 Years during Lockdown by Urban Parents of Chennai - A Survey

Abstract

COVID-19, a  pandemic outbreak  originated from Wuhan, China , now  has spread around 70 countries in the world. To prevent COVID-19 spread it is necessary to follow lockdown.While coronavirus continues to spread across the globe, many countries have decided to close schools as part of a social distancing policy in order to slow transmission of the virus.However, these closure of schools, has affected the education children and youth worldwide due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.Lockdown is the term  which is new to everyone, especially the young children. To make them understand and control them and maintain a good routine  is a task..Controlling children during lockdown is bit difficult but there are many ways to keep them energetic and joyful.The aim of this survey was to assess the awareness of urban parents of chennai to manage their kids amidst the lockdown.An online survey with self structured questionnaire to analyse the  methods followed by parents  to control their childrens below 12 years in this COVID-19 pandemic was done.The results were obtained and statistically analysed through SPSS software, chi square test was done to check the association and a p value of <0.05  was said to be statistically significant. The survey was conducted in the month of May, 2020. From the survey, it was evident that 46% of the parents found it difficult to manage their children and 95% of them were worried that their children’s education will be affected by the delay in lifting down the corona virus lockdown.At the same time 54% of the participants took this lockdown as an opportunity to teach them arts and crafts and also found that the majority of the  female participants were more interested to teach their kinds than male participants and it is statistically significant.(p-value<0.05).