COVID-19 Pandemic Challenges for Families of Children and Youth Impacted by Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
Bibliographic record
Abstract
<em>Research has consistently shown that parents of children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) experience greater levels of stress, severely impacting their quality of life. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a growing concern about increased challenges experienced by these families. A mixed-methods approach was used to address our research questions. An anonymous online survey (n = 17) along with semi-structured interviews (n = 10) conducted over the time period of October and November 2020 were used to explore the needs and challenges of families of children and youth with FASD during the pandemic. Interview transcripts were coded and analyzed using interpretative phenomenological analysis. The most striking finding for caregivers was an increased occurrence of their children’s challenging behaviours, including aggression. Previous mental health issues of children were reported as being exacerbated due to the disruption in services, loss of routines and structures. Several parents reported being diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of caring for their children. Placement instability, mental health issues in the child, siblings and parents were all amplified. This study underscores the need for increased mental health support for individuals with FASD and their families, including safe and accessible respite options and interventions to respond to dangerous behaviours and aggression both during the pandemic and post-pandemic.</em>
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".