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The problem
Intervention: Exposure to 2020 COVID-19 lockdowns in Australian schools (natural experiment)
Who it was tested with: 6 to 12-year-old children in government schools in Queensland, Western Australia and Tasmania; treatment group n=580, comparison group n=841.
Children or communities are compared with a group that did not receive the intervention, or followed over years. This is the design that best separates what the intervention did from everything else that changed.
"Well‐being was assessed using a video game that empowers children to report their own well‐being, including school attachment, social and emotional well‐being, behavioural conformity and family support. We compared well‐being over time for two groups of children in government schools in Queensland, Western Australia and Tasmania. The treatment group of 580 children were tested in 2019 (Time 1) and a second time in mid‐late 2020 and early 2021 (Time 2)." This quasi-experimental design uses before-after measurement with a non-equivalent comparison group to assess pandemic impacts on child well-being.
Comparison group was not exposed to lockdowns, making them not truly equivalent; the study cannot isolate lockdown effects from other pandemic impacts; relies on children's self-reported well-being which may vary by age and ability to articulate feelings
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