Mitigate the effects of home confinement on children during the COVID-19 outbreak

[...]in addition to innovative courses for a better learning experience, promotional videos can be useful to motivate children to have a healthy lifestyle at home by increasing physical activities, having a balanced diet, regular sleep pattern, and good personal hygiene.8 To make these educational m...

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Published in:	The Lancet 2020-03, Vol.395 (10228), p.945-947
Main Authors:	Wang, Guanghai, Zhang, Yunting, Zhao, Jin, Zhang, Jun, Jiang, Fan
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	Adolescent Age Child Child, Preschool Children Children & youth China - epidemiology Confinement Coronavirus Infections - prevention & control Coronavirus Infections - psychology Coronavirus Infections - transmission Coronaviruses Correspondence COVID-19 Curricula Diet Disease transmission Distance learning Education, Distance - methods Education, Distance - organization & administration Educational materials Epidemics Families & family life Female Health behavior Health promotion Humans Lifestyles Male Mental health Online instruction Outbreaks Pandemics Parents Parents & parenting Personal hygiene Pneumonia, Viral - prevention & control Pneumonia, Viral - psychology Pneumonia, Viral - transmission Psychology, Child Quarantine Quarantine - psychology Schedules Schools Skills Sleep Stress, Psychological Students Teenagers
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Summary:	[...]in addition to innovative courses for a better learning experience, promotional videos can be useful to motivate children to have a healthy lifestyle at home by increasing physical activities, having a balanced diet, regular sleep pattern, and good personal hygiene.8 To make these educational materials truly effective, they must be age-appropriate and attractive. Schools can actively promote a health-conscious schedule, good personal hygiene, encourage physical activities, appropriate diet, and good sleep habits, and integrate such health promotion materials into the school curriculum.3 A Chinese child studies from home during the COVID-19 outbreak Fan Jiang In the event of home confinement, parents are often the closest and best resource for children to seek help from. Good parenting skills become particularly crucial when children are confined at home. Besides monitoring child performance and behaviour, parents also need to respect their identity and needs, and they need to help children develop self-discipline skills.
ISSN:	0140-6736 1474-547X