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The problem
Intervention: School closures as a COVID-19 restriction policy
Who it was tested with: Children (mean age 9.65 years, 54% boys) and parents (47% male, mean age 40.71) from Germany, United Kingdom, Norway, and Sweden.
Experience from people who deliver programmes: stories, case studies and lessons learned. Valuable for understanding how and why, and for spotting what to test next, but not a measure of effect.
"We conducted a cross‐national online study with parents (N = 423) from Germany, the United Kingdom, Norway, and Sweden. We assessed parents' well‐being and children's well‐being as reported by their parents for spring and fall 2020." The researchers used a quasi-experimental approach by comparing child well-being trajectories across countries with different school closure policies at a natural break point in time.
The study uses parent-reported rather than direct child measures of well-being. The quasi-experimental design does not allow definitive causal conclusions. Other contextual or policy differences between countries may confound the comparison of school closure effects.
Across countries and designs
2 studies · 5 countries
