Effect of COVID-19 infection on psychological aspects of pre-schooler children: a cross-sectional study

Ahmed, Gellan K.; Mostafa, Sayed; Elbeh, Khaled; Gomaa, Hamdy M.; Soliman, Saeed

doi:10.1186/s43045-022-00207-y

Middle East Current Psychiatry

Table 5 The correlation for CBCL subscales and sociodemographic data, impact of COVID-19 on children

From: Effect of COVID-19 infection on psychological aspects of pre-schooler children: a cross-sectional study

	Age (years)		Number of children	Order of birth	one of the family have diagnosis as COVID-19 infection	one of the family die from COVID-19 infection	School problems due to COVID-19	Social problems due to COVID-19	Problems in parent relationship due to COVID-19	Increase family expenses due to COVID-19	Decrease family income due to COVID-19	Total score of socioeconomic scale
CBCL profile of syndromes
Emotionally reactive	r	0.44	−0.05	−0.15	0.16	0.45	−0.25	0.05	0.05	−0.16	−0.07	0.17
Emotionally reactive	P-value	0.09	0.83	0.58	0.56	0.09	0.35	0.84	0.84	0.55	0.79	0.53
Anxious/depressed	r	0.5	0.1	−0.38	0.21	0.27	0.08	0.11	0.32	0.29	0.13	−0.14
Anxious/depressed	P-value	0.05	0.71	0.15	0.43	0.32	0.77	0.68	0.23	0.28	0.63	0.61
Somatic complaints	r	0.35	−0.29	−0.28	−0.32	−0.06	0.708	0.66	−0.01	0.51	0.66	−0.45
Somatic complaints	P-value	0.19	0.28	0.31	0.23	0.81	0.003*	0.007*	0.95	0.05	0.006*	0.08
Withdrawn	r	0.21	−0.27	−0.03	−0.37	0.35	−0.22	0.1	−0.07	−0.15	−0.03	0.09
Withdrawn	P-value	0.45	0.33	0.89	0.16	0.19	0.42	0.71	0.8	0.58	0.9	0.72
Sleep problems	r	0.06	−0.53	−0.44	0.13	0.16	−0.1	0.000	−0.08	−0.18	−0.12	0.23
Sleep problems	P-value	0.82	0.04*	0.09	0.63	0.55	0.72	1.000	0.76	0.51	0.66	0.4
Attention problems	r	0.43	−0.05	−0.35	0.1	0.78	0.09	0.35	0.42	0.21	0.28	−0.22
Attention problems	P-value	0.1	0.86	0.19	0.71	0.001*	0.73	0.19	0.11	0.44	0.29	0.41
Aggressive behavior	r	0.05	0.38	0.34	0.16	0.07	0.25	0.21	0.36	0.09	0.14	−0.12
Aggressive behavior	P-value	0.84	0.15	0.2	0.56	0.78	0.35	0.43	0.18	0.74	0.59	0.66
Internalizing problems	r	0.15	−0.27	−0.15	−0.32	0.27	−0.11	0.14	−0.01	−0.14	0.000	-0.01
Internalizing problems	P-value	0.58	0.31	0.57	0.23	0.32	0.68	0.6	0.95	0.59	1.000	0.95
Externalizing problems	r	−0.20	−0.06	0.29	−0.32	-0.06	0.09	0.14	0.08	−0.06	0.03	0.14
Externalizing problems	P-value	0.46	0.8	0.28	0.23	0.81	0.72	0.6	0.76	0.81	0.9	0.61
Total problems	r	0.05	−0.3	−0.39	0.28	0.13	−0.27	−0.01	0.42	0.08	−0.06	−0.09
Total problems	P-value	0.86	0.26	0.14	0.3	0.63	0.32	0.95	0.11	0.77	0.81	0.74
CBCL profile of DSM-5 scales
Affective problems	r	0.14	−0.05	−0.35	0.1	0.29	0.45	0.35	0.32	0.21	0.28	-0.52
Affective problems	P-value	0.6	0.86	0.19	0.71	0.28	0.09	0.19	0.24	0.44	0.29	0.045*
Anxiety problems	r	0.21	−0.09	−0.39	0.18	0.35	0.54	0.64	0.46	0.54	0.66	−0.29
Anxiety problems	P-value	0.45	0.74	0.14	0.50	0.19	0.035*	0.01*	0.08	0.034*	0.007*	0.28
Pervasive developmental problems	r	0.44	0.38	0.09	0.16	0.82	−0.07	0.05	0.05	−0.16	−0.07	0.1
Pervasive developmental problems	P-value	0.09	0.15	0.73	0.56	0.000*	0.79	0.84	0.84	0.55	0.79	0.71
Oppositional defiant problems	r	0.31	−0.04	−0.02	0.13	0.16	−0.1	0.000	−0.08	−0.18	−0.12	0.19
Oppositional defiant problems	P-value	0.26	0.88	0.94	0.63	0.55	0.72	1.000	0.76	0.51	0.66	0.49

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