{"id":19440,"date":"2024-06-27T04:10:19","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T04:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pidsphil.org\/home\/?page_id=19440"},"modified":"2025-06-14T00:46:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T00:46:12","slug":"journal-2024-vol-25-no-1-original-articles-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.pidsphil.org\/home\/journal-2024-vol-25-no-1-original-articles-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Journal 2024 Vol.25 No.1 Original Articles 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Journal 2024 Vol.25 No.1<\/span><\/strong><\/b><br \/>\n<b>Psychosocial Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Children of Healthcare\u00a0<\/b><b>Workers at a Private Tertiary Hospital in Manila using the Pediatric\u00a0<\/b><b>Symptoms Checklist-35 <\/b><br \/>\n<em><strong>Rosanne M. Feliciano, M.D., Jacqueline Sew, M.D., Shirley Kwong-Buizon, M.D.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><b>Abstract<\/b><br \/>\n<b>Background: <\/b>The COVID-19 pandemic led to a public health emergency causing changes that may pose a greater risk of behavioral and psychosocial problems for children. Children of healthcare workers are possibly at increased risk of mental health problems due to their parent\u2019s constant exposure to COVID-19. The Pediatric Symptoms Checklist-35 (PSC-35) is one of the validated psychosocial screening tools that helps identify emotional, cognitive, and behavior problems in children.<br \/>\n<b>Objective: <\/b>To determine the psychosocial impact of COVID-19 pandemic on 6-16 years old children of healthcare workers using the PSC-35.<br \/>\n<b>Methodology: <\/b>This is a cross-sectional analytic study. Demographic and clinical data were collected. PSC-35 were administered from June 2023-September 2023 to the healthcare worker parents with children aged 6-16 years old. Using this validated PSC-35, questions are a series of signs and symptoms related to impairments in cognitive, emotional, and\/or behavioral well-being of children. This 35-item questionnaire was rated and scored as 0 for Never,1 for Sometimes, and 2 for Often. The total scores were evaluated, calculated, and interpreted. A cut off score of 28 or higher indicates a high possibility psychosocial impairment that warrant further investigation or referral to a specialist.<br \/>\n<b>Results and Conclusions: <\/b>Out of 372 respondents, 4.57% (n=17) children were found at risk of psychosocial impairment with PSC-35 score of 28 and higher. Two demographic factors were found to have a significant correlation with scores above the cutoff: maternal occupation (p-value 0.018) and the presence of comorbidity in the parent (p-value 0.000). Children found to be at risk were advised consultation with a specialist.<\/p>\n<p><b>KEYWORDS: <\/b><i>Children of healthcare workers, PSC -35, COVID-19 pandemic<\/i><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.56964\/pidspj20242501003\"><strong>https:\/\/doi.org\/10.56964\/pidspj20242501003<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pidsphil.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/4-COVID-19-Psychosocial-Impact.pdf\" target=\"_\" rel=\"noopener\">View Full Article in PDF format<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journal 2024 Vol.25 No.1 Psychosocial Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Children of Healthcare\u00a0Workers at a Private Tertiary Hospital in Manila using the Pediatric\u00a0Symptoms Checklist-35 Rosanne M. Feliciano, M.D., Jacqueline Sew, M.D., Shirley Kwong-Buizon, M.D. Abstract Background: The COVID-19 pandemic led to a public health emergency causing changes that may pose a greater risk of behavioral  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-19440","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pidsphil.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pidsphil.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pidsphil.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pidsphil.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pidsphil.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19440"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.pidsphil.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19467,"href":"https:\/\/www.pidsphil.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19440\/revisions\/19467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pidsphil.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}