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| Published: June 25, 2020
Lock down and child psychology: perspectives of a practicing pediatrician
Consultant Pediatrician, Department of Pediatrics, Providence hospital, Alappuzha, Kerala, India Google Scholar More about the auther
Department of General Medicine, Mysore Medical College, Karnataka, India Google Scholar More about the auther
DIP: 18.01.083/20200802
DOI: 10.25215/0802.083
ABSTRACT
COVID-19 pandemic has caused a lockdown situation in India. In this study, the author analyses the incoming phone calls from the parents during lock down, over a time frame of 40 days to understand the problems faced by the children during lockdown period. This study is to identify those problems and aim at providing a solution to the parents during a lock down situation to keep up the mental health of children. This situation has made a significant impact on child and adolescent psychology. Temper tantrums, mobile phone addiction, head ache, increased accidents, accidental poisoning, anxiety disorders etc. have become a parental concern in lock down period. This article is a bird’s eye view of these problems through a pediatrician perspective and solutions for the children’s problems during a lock down situation.
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This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
© 2020, J Suresh, Chandran. N.R
Received: May 04, 2020; Revision Received: June 11, 2020; Accepted: June 25, 2020
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.083/20200802
10.25215/0802.083
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Published in Volume 08, Issue 2, April- June, 2020