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Introduction: Important reasons for the development of child anxiety are the factor of parental anxiety and the experience of the children's illness. There are differences between the level of anxiety in frequently and rarely ill children, as well as these indicators in their parents. Objectives: To assess the relationship between parental anxiety and anxiety among frequently and rarely ill children. Methods: Sample: 145 people: 46 frequently ill children (mean age - 16.3±0.3), 41 rarely ill children (mean age - 16.1±0.1), 28 parents of frequently ill children (mean age - 44.9±0.8), 30 parents of rarely ill children (mean age -44.5±1.5). Methods: State-TraitAnxiety Inventory (Spielberger, 1983), Short Health Anxiety Inventory (Salkovskis, 2002). Results: Frequently ill children significantly differ from rarely ill children by personal anxiety parameter (p= 1.386, p=0.01) and have no significant differences with this indicator in their parents (p=12.825, p>0.05). For rarely ill children and their parents, this indicator has significant differences (p=2.382, p=0.01). Frequently ill children, like their parents, have a high level of personal anxiety, which may not always be correlated with the severity of the disease of children, but has an impact on their personal development. Health anxiety among frequently and rarely ill children has no significant differences (p= 9.265, p>0.05). Illness experience doesn't affect health anxiety in these groups. Conclusions: Parental anxiety is defined as one of the significant components of adverse effects on children's development. The psychological impact on the frequently ill anxious child will be more effective if the parental attitude to him is optimized. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic has become a situation of increased concern due to health threats and increased uncertainty. The risk of infection with the respiratory system coronavirus attracts increased attention to respiratory sensations. These two aspects can be beneficial grounds for the dysfunctional breathingchanges emergence in the breathing pattern that does not correspond to physiological needs. Objectives: To study the prevalence of dysfunctional breathing associated with anxiety during the COVID - 19 pandemic in Russia. Methods: The author's socio-demographic questionnaire, the Naimigen Questionnaire, The State-Trait Anxiety Inventory were used. The survey was conducted online in May 2020. There were 582 participants (496 women&86 men) between the ages of 18 and 64. Results: The severity of dysfunctional breathing significantly correlated with the height of personal anxiety (r=0.488, p=0.000). Women are more likely than men to have dysfunctional breathing (18.1±9.6vs11.6 ±7.9;p=0.000) and have more expressed personal anxiety(26±10.5vs19.8 ±9.7; p=0.000). The age of respondents has an inverse correlation with personal anxiety (r=-0.147, p= 0.000), but not with dysfunctional breathing. Respondents who consider coronavirus to be a very dangerous trend to have dysfunctional breathing more than those who believe that the danger of coronavirus is exaggerated(18.1±10vs15.9 ±8.9;p=0.052). Conclusions: During the COVID-19 pandemic, the risk of dysfunctional breathing increases in a wide range of the population, especially among women. Since one of the dysfunctional breathing symptoms is a feeling of "difficulty inhaling", anxious people may interpret this as shortness of breath in COVID-19, which may motivate them to seek medical help, thereby artificially increasing the burden on the health system during the COVID-19 pandemic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]