Home participation and contextual factors in childhood disabilities: a cross sectional study during COVID-19 pandemic
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2238-6149.v35i1-3e231252Keywords:
Adolescents, Children, Disability, ICF, ParticipationAbstract
Children’s functioning manifests in their participation and is highly influenced by personal factors (as mediators) and environmental factors (as barriers or facilitators), which can either hinder or support their participation. The COVID-19 pandemic presents a unique circumstance to explore those influences. We investigated whether (i)child’s factors, (ii)home-family environment and (iii) frequency at home participation are associated with involvement in home participation of children with developmental disabilities (DD) during COVID-19 pandemic. Cross-sectional-exploratory study. Ninety
parents of children with DD (7.00±3.78 years) answered a standardized questionnaire and the home section of PEM-CY. Multivariate linear regression was run with involvement as a dependent outcome. The frequency at home participation was the first variable to enter the model, representing 48.5% of the involvement. The next variable to enter the model was the child’s motor impairment, representing 56.2% of the involvement together with frequency. The last variable that entered was caregivers that did not work, together representing 58.7% of the involvement. A higher frequency of participation at home, children with motor impairments (instead of intellectual or behavioral impairments) and mothers that are not employed were strongly associated with greater involvement in participation at home during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our findings are a small contribution to better understand the relationship between contextual factors that define participation at home during the COVID-19 pandemic
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