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The problem
Intervention: Clinical assessment and monitoring through phone interviews during pandemic lockdown; the document suggests but does not detail what support was provided
Who it was tested with: 110 family members (primarily mothers aged 31-45) of children receiving rehabilitation and therapy services.
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.
"The study was conducted during a two-month period March-April 2020. The sample involved 110 relatives of children that were taking educative and rehabilitation therapy in NCCRT during last year, ambulatory or inpatients. Data were collected by clinical records and phone interviews." The design is a single-point cross-sectional assessment without pre-pandemic baseline or control group comparison, making it impossible to determine whether the observed anxiety was truly caused by the pandemic or measure intervention effects.
No baseline data collected before the pandemic; no control group of caregivers not affected by lockdown; no follow-up data; no measurement of intervention effectiveness; unclear whether anxiety levels returned to baseline or worsened over time.
Across countries and designs
4 studies · 3 countries
