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Exposure to COVID-19 pandemic during the first year of life has negatively influenced the socioemotional development of children
  1. Joanna Day
  1. College of Nursing and Midwifery, Birmingham City University, Birmingham, UK
  1. Correspondence to Joanna Day; Joanna.Day{at}bcu.ac.uk

https://doi.org/10.1136/ebnurs-2024-103984

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    Commentary on: Kuehn L, Jones A, Helmkamp L et al Socioemotional Development of Infants and Toddlers During the COVID-19 Pandemic. JAMA Paediatr 2023;178(2):151–159

    Implications for practice and research

    • All practitioners involved in the care of children should consider the negative impact that the pandemic has had on socioemotional development as these children move through their lives, recognising that their understanding of nursing care may be different.

    • Considering the already widespread usage of questionnaires to measure development, there is scope to explore the long-term impact of this known delay on their childhood, adolescence and adult life.

    Context

    There is a known anecdotal link between the COVID-19 pandemic and poor socioemotional development among children exposed to the dramatic and often frightening restrictions and risks associated with it. Nurses have recognised the difficulties that infants and children have presented within aspects of their development, such as delays in speech …

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    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.