HEMOT®, Helmet for EMOTions: A Web Application for Children on Earthquake-Related Emotional Prevention

Vicentini, Giada; Brondino, Margherita; Burro, Roberto; Raccanello, Daniela

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-52538-5_2

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“…It is worth noting that most of the interventions examined in the psychological literature were conducted after a disaster has occurred (for meta-analyses on their efficacy see Brown et al, 2017;Kar et al, 2009;Pfefferbaum et al, 2019). However, disaster preparedness and prevention are of key relevance to support adjustment and use of effective coping strategies in the case of an emergency (for example of one intervention conducted before disasters, see Raccanello, et al, 2019bRaccanello, et al, , 2020aRaccanello, et al, , 2021Vicentini et al, 2020).…”

Section: Coping Strategiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…hemot. eu; Raccanello et al, 2019bRaccanello et al, , 2020aRaccanello et al, , 2020bRaccanello et al, , 2020cRaccanello et al, , 2021Vicentini et al, 2020). Knowing which coping strategies are effective for diminishing maladjustment and increasing adjustment in children and adolescents is of critical relevance for planning interventions to support victims before, during, and after a disaster.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Coping Strategies and Psychological Maladjustment/Adjustment: A Meta-Analytic Approach with Children and Adolescents Exposed to Natural Disasters

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Barnaba

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Child Youth Care Forum

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Background Following disasters, children and adolescents can use coping strategies to feel better. A growing body of studies investigated the relation between them and maladjustment/adjustment, i.e., negative symptomatology/positive indicators of development. Yet, these constructs are studied separately. Objective We conducted two meta-analyses to examine the mean correlation between disaster-related coping strategies and indicators of maladjustment/adjustment following natural disasters in children and adolescents, considering the role of some moderators. Methods We used PsycINFO, PubMed, Eric, and Scopus databases to identify articles on natural disasters (filters: participants ≤ 18 years at the disaster, peer-review, English language). Inclusion required investigating the relation between at least one coping strategy and at least one indicator of maladjustment (e.g., post-traumatic stress disorder, depression) and/or adjustment (e.g., self-efficacy, emotion understanding), for a total of 26 studies (k = 64, n = 9692, for maladjustment; k = 37, n = 3504, for adjustment). Results There were global positive significant correlations between coping strategies and negative symptomatology (rpooled = .23) for maladjustment, and positive indicators (rpooled = .17) for adjustment. Negative symptomatology positively correlated with escape (r = .19), social isolation (r = .15), submission (r = .64), and opposition (r = .16); positive indicators positively correlated with problem solving (r = .31), social support (r = .22), and submission (r = .30). We found a moderating role of age, disaster type, and continent for maladjustment. Conclusions The study presented an analysis of the coping strategies that can be effective for children and adolescents dealing with natural disasters.

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Coping Strategies and Psychological Maladjustment/Adjustment: A Meta-Analytic Approach with Children and Adolescents Exposed to Natural Disasters

Raccanello

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Barnaba

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Child Youth Care Forum

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“…To our knowledge, no previous study has examined together, through a meta-analytic approach, different psychological disorders and/or symptoms such as depression, anxiety, PTSD, and psychological distress due to the COVID-19 pandemic, in children and adolescents, differentiating self-report and other-report instruments. Understanding the psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on this population would provide a theoretical basis for designing timely interventions to protect young people from such events in the future (Pappa et al, 2020;Vicentini et al, 2020). Given the large number of factors associated with children and adolescents' responses to a disaster (Masten & Osofsky, 2010), it is of paramount relevance to identify how children and adolescents are reacting to foster their resilience (Masten & Motti-Stefanidi, 2020).…”

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“…hemot. eu; Raccanello et al, 2020aRaccanello et al, , 2020bRaccanello et al, , 2020cRaccanello et al, , 2021Raccanello et al, , 2022bVicentini et al, 2020).…”

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Eighteen Months of COVID-19 Pandemic Through the Lenses of Self or Others: A Meta-Analysis on Children and Adolescents’ Mental Health

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Background The COVID-19 pandemic can have a serious impact on children and adolescents’ mental health. We focused on studies exploring its traumatic effects on young people in the first 18 months after that the pandemic was declared, distinguishing them also according to the type of informants (self-report and other-report instruments). Objective We applied a meta-analytic approach to examine the prevalence of depression, anxiety, posttraumatic stress disorder, and psychological distress among children and adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic, considering the moderating role of kind of disorder and/or symptom, type of instrument, and continent. Method We used PsycINFO, PubMed, and Scopus databases to identify articles on the COVID-19 pandemic, applying the following filters: participants until 20 years of age, peer-review, English as publication language. Inclusion required investigating the occurrence of disorders and/or symptoms during the first 18 months of the pandemic. The search identified 26 publications. Results The meta-analysis revealed that the pooled prevalence of psychological disorders and/or symptoms for children and adolescents, who were not affected by mental health disturbances before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, was .20, 95% CI [.16, .23]. Moreover, we found a moderating role of type of instrument: occurrence was higher for self-report compared to other-report instruments. Conclusions The study presented an analysis of the psychological consequences for children and adolescents of the exposure to the COVID-19 pandemic, soliciting further research to identify factors underlying resilience. Notwithstanding limitations such as the small number of eligible articles and the fact that we did not examine the role of further characteristics of the studies (such as participants’ age or design), this meta-analysis is a first step for future research documenting the impact of such an unexpected and devastating disaster like the COVID-19 pandemic.

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“…One was a meta-analysis of relevant studies involving children and adolescents ( Raccanello et al, 2019 ) and the other, a study in which adults reported adaptive strategies used to cope with earthquakes ( Raccanello et al, 2021a ). The literature review was followed by a process, in which four experts in developmental and educational psychology independently created a set of adaptive and maladaptive strategies that could be used to cope with the negative psychological consequences of pandemics, basing their work on previous research (e.g., Raccanello et al, 2019 , 2020a , b , 2021a ; Vicentini et al, 2020 ). A panel of judges (consisting of the four previously mentioned experts and two other experts in general psychology and education) discussed the set of items and retained 36 of the initial pool.…”

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Development and Validation of the Robust - Pandemic Coping Scale (R-PCS)

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The psychological consequences of epidemics/pandemics, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, include an increase in psychopathological symptoms, such as depression, anxiety, and stress, and negative emotions, such as fear. However, relatively little attention has been paid to how people cope with the pandemic. Coping is a multi-component process, helping to diminish the traumatic impact of stressful events in a variety of ways. We studied how university students coped with the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, by developing the Robust - Pandemic Coping Scale (R-PCS), a new scale for measuring coping strategies related to epidemics/pandemics. The scale is based on a classification of coping strategies referred to the needs of competence, relatedness, and autonomy. To create a robust scale, such that the item values would be independent of the sample used for developing it, we employed Rasch modeling. We used a sample of 2,987 Italian university students who participated in an online survey including the R-PCS and the Power to Live with Disasters Questionnaire (PLDQ), during March 2020. First, we applied a dual approach combining exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, which supported the goodness of a 4-factor model (i.e., Despair, Adjustment, Proactivity, and Aversion) for the R-PCS, invariant across gender and age of respondents (younger or as old as 23 years, older than 23 years). We then transformed the raw scores of the R-PCS into interval logit scale scores applying the Rasch model. Second, our findings supported the discriminant validity and the criterion validity of the R-PCS, examining the correlations with the PLDQ. They also confirmed its predictive validity: the R-PCS scores were related to 2-month-later enjoyment and anger, indicating that Adjustment and Proactivity were adaptive while Despair and Aversion were maladaptive. Third, our study revealed gender and age differences: the scores were higher for Despair, Adjustment, and Proactivity for females; for Aversion for males; and for Proactivity for students older than 23 years. The study suffers from limitations related to social desirability, gender imbalance, and self-selection effects in the recruitment.

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HEMOT®, Helmet for EMOTions: A Web Application for Children on Earthquake-Related Emotional Prevention

Cited by 6 publications

References 13 publications

Coping Strategies and Psychological Maladjustment/Adjustment: A Meta-Analytic Approach with Children and Adolescents Exposed to Natural Disasters

Coping Strategies and Psychological Maladjustment/Adjustment: A Meta-Analytic Approach with Children and Adolescents Exposed to Natural Disasters

Eighteen Months of COVID-19 Pandemic Through the Lenses of Self or Others: A Meta-Analysis on Children and Adolescents’ Mental Health

Development and Validation of the Robust - Pandemic Coping Scale (R-PCS)

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