Parents' stress levels spike as pandemic drags on

The big picture: The multiple stresses people are experiencing “will result in a secondary epidemic of burnouts and stress-related absenteeism in the latter half of 2020,” Elke Van Hoof, a professor of health psychology and primary care psychology at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, writes for the World Economic Forum.

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The first research about the quarantine in China found that quarantine can bring on insomnia, stress, anxiety, depression, anger, emotional exhaustion and post-traumatic stress symptoms, per a review published in The Lancet.

And the mental health impact was higher in cases where parents were quarantined with children, the review found. One study found 28% of parents were experiencing “trauma-related mental health disorder.”

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