Parenting practices and family relationships during the COVID-19 lockdown in Ghana
Journal of Public Health in Africa
| Field | Value | |
| Title | Parenting practices and family relationships during the COVID-19 lockdown in Ghana | |
| Creator | Owusu, Samuel A. Ekumah, Bernard Kodom, Ruby V. Ebu Enyan, Nancy I. Korkoi Aboh, Irene Quansah, Reginald Boamah, Sheila A. Boateng, Godfred O. Obiri-Yeboah, Dorcas Doku, David T. Nsabimana, Epaphrodite Jansen, Stefan Armah, Frederick A. | |
| Description | The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have been far reaching across almost every sphere of life. Families, which are the basic units of society, have not been spared the ravages of the pandemic. Changes in family daily routines as a result of COVID-19 can affect spousal relationships, parenting and childcare practices. However, the extent to which the pandemic has affected parenting practices and family relationships in Ghana is not known. The goal of this study was to assess how parenting practices and family relationships have been influenced during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana. Data for this paper was drawn from an online questionnaire response from 463 participants in Ghana as a subset analysis from a multi-country study on personal and family coping system with COVID-19 pandemic in the global south. The mean score for pre-COVID-19 relationship with partner (36.86) was higher (p0.0001) than the mean score for during COVID-19 relationship with partner (35.32) indicating that COVID-19 has had negative influence on relationships. The mean score for pre-COVID-19 parenting (32.78) was higher (p0.0001) compared to the mean score for during COVID-19 parenting (31.40) indicating negative influence on parenting. We have predicted that participants whose coping levels were “Well” on the average, are likely to be doing well in relationship with partners and parenting practices during the COVID-19 period The challenging public health containment measures of the COVID-19 pandemic have negatively influenced the relationship between partners and parenting practices in Ghana. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 2022-07-26 | |
| Identifier | 10.4081/jphia.2022.1849 | |
| Source | Journal of Public Health in Africa; Vol 13, No 2 (2022); 8 2038-9930 2038-9922 | |
| Language | eng | |
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