Abstract:Background: Our aim was to assess, in the general German population, the association between tobacco smoking status and self-reported SARS-CoV-2 infection, COVID-19 symptom severity, and symptom duration. Methods: Cross-...
Alcohol Consumption and Psychological Distress During the Second Lockdown in Healthcare Workers and Persons from Other FieldsAbstract:Aim: Besides the risk of infection by SARS-CoV-2 during the ...
The Mental Health of Preschool Children During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Relevance of Preschool TeachersAbstract: The COVID-19 Children’s Study investigates the mental health of Tyrolean children during the COVID-19 pandemic. This ...
Entering School Socially and Emotionally Competent?! Preschool Development During the COVID-19 PandemicAbstract. During the development of emotional and social skills at preschool age, children find it increasingly easier to ...
Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic drastically impacted the educational sector on a global front. A plethora of research has been conducted to better understand the effects that the pandemic had on education as a whole, including ...
Abstract: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, schools were closed twice in Germany for several months. The aim of the present study was to investigate whether distant teaching activities increased from the first school lockdown to the second ...
Abstract: Higher education institutions in Austria switched to emergency distance learning in March 2020 to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. Due to the sudden change, students and instructors scarcely had time to adjust to the new ...
Abstract: COVID-19-related school closures in spring 2020 interrupted learning routines and posed a great challenge for students' competencies acquisition and self-concepts. Concerns about possible learning ...
Corona and Drug Services: How Institutions Handle Measures to Mitigate the PandemicAbstract:Objective: Investigation of the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on mainly low-threshold drug services and the reactions ...
Abstract: The current literature has insufficiently examined the potential benefits of implementing early neuropsychological interventions for critically ill patients who have experienced COVID-19. To address this ...
Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic required the deployment of crisis management teams (CMTs) on an unprecedented scale. Due to their high level of responsibility and wide-ranging decision-making authority, the enduring resilience and ...
Abstract: Adverse experiences interact with individual vulnerability in the etiology of mental disorders, but due to the paucity of longitudinal studies, their precise interplay remains unclear. Here, we investigated how individual ...
Abstract: A growing volume of work suggests a positive impact of descriptive norms on health-protective behavior in the COVID-19 pandemic. However, past work has often been correlational and has rarely compared the effect of different ...
Evidence of Stress Reactions and Positive Changes in Primary School Children During the COVID-19 PandemicAbstract:Theoretical Background: The COVID-19 pandemic is a global crisis, and international studies reveal the psychosocial ...
Abstract:Theoretical background: Sleep is a vital factor in early development. Altered child sleep behavior has been reported during the COVID-19 pandemic (Sharma et al., 2021). Objective: We describe young children’s sleep behavior ...
COVID Instead of Daycare. The Ongoing Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Preschoolers’ Mental HealthAbstract:Background: In spring 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic led to increased behavioral problems in preschoolers. Objective: The ...
Opportunities and Challenges in Educational Therapy at Distance – A Qualitative StudyAbstract.Background: Children with difficulties in reading, writing and/or mathematics are supported in educational therapy to acquire ...
Internet Use Disorders Among German Adolescents Before and During the COVID-19 PandemicAbstract.Theoretical background: Several studies indicate that the level of adolescents’ time spent online increased sharply during the lockdown ...
Abstract. The health literacy (HL) facet Access to health information is measured in the European Health Literacy Survey (HLS-EU-Q47) by 12 items. To assess Access, we developed adapted item formulations for COVID-19 infection ...
Abstract:Aims: Nationwide restrictions were implemented in Germany in March 2020 to reduce the spread of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus type 2 (SARS-COV-2). It is not yet precisely known how ...