Disruptions, adjustments and hopes: The impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on child well‐being in five Majority World Countries. (31st March 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Haffejee, Sadiyya; Vostanis, Panos; O'Reilly, Michelle; Law, Effie; Eruyar, Seyda; Fleury, Julianna; Hassan, Sajida; Getanda, Elijah
• Is Part Of: Children & society. Volume 37:Number 1(2023)
• Page Start: 8
• Page End: 28
• Publication Date: 2022-03-31
• Subjects: child well‐being -- COVID‐19 -- majority world countries -- resilience; Children -- Care and hygiene -- Periodicals; Child welfare -- Periodicals; Child welfare -- Great Britain -- Periodicals; Children -- Social conditions -- Periodicals; Child development -- Periodicals; 362.70941
• DOI: 10.1111/chso.12563
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0951-0605

Abstract

Abstract: Drawing on integrated data from focus groups and diary entries, we explored the impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on child well‐being for children from five Majority World Countries. We focus on the disruptions the pandemic caused, the adjustments made in response to these, and children's vision of a post‐pandemic world. Underlying children's experiences of loss, boredom and concerns about educational progress, was an awareness of systemic inequalities that disadvantaged them or others in their community. Findings have implications on capturing children's voices through introspective and dialogical approaches that transcend cultures and for the development of preventive and responsive interventions during crises.