1. Sociodemographic and economic characteristics of families and health and education conditions of children in the BRISA cohort during the COVID-19 pandemic
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Julia Hannah Teixeira, Paulo Ricardo Higassiaraguti Rocha, Eduardo Carvalho de Arruda Veiga, Karina Bezerra Salomão, Manuela Ramos Barbieri, Mariana Moraes de Oliveira, Viviane Cunha Cardoso, Ricardo de Carvalho Cavalli, Marco Antonio Barbieri, Maria da Conceição Pereira Saraiva, and Heloisa Bettiol
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Cohort studies ,Pandemics ,Child health ,Socioeconomic factors ,Public aspects of medicine ,RA1-1270 - Abstract
ABSTRACT Objective: To describe changes in sociodemographic, economic and variables related to the characterization of family, health and education during the COVID-19 pandemic in a birth cohort evaluated at 10–11 years of age. Methods: Cross-sectional study involving 1,033 children from a cohort of children born in 2010/2011, in the city of Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil. Data were collected from July to October 2021 by telephone or video interview held with the person responsible for the child. The questionnaires discussed family organization, child behavior and health, school attendance, socioeconomic assessment and occurrence of COVID-19 during the period of social isolation due to the pandemic. Descriptive statistics were used to describe the data. The chi-square test was used to verify group differences by minimum wages (MW). Results: Of the respondents, 47.6% reported worsening of their financial situation during the pandemic, which was more frequent in the group with a household income 6 MW (59.1 vs. 15.7%; p
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- 2023
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