International Journal of Women's Health Care(IJWHC)

Department of Pediatrics, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, 567-0871, Japan

Publications

• Research Article   
  The COVID-19 Pandemic in Japan: Its Impact on a Newborn's Childcare Environment and on the Mother's Sense of Loneliness
  Author(s): Ai Miyoshi, Yutaka Ueda*, Mariko Taniguchi, Asami Yagi, Toshihiro Kimura, Eiji Kobayashi, Hitomi Arahori, Sayaka Ikeda, Kei Hirai and Tadashi Kimura
  
  The COVID-imposed social isolation of Japanese mothers has significantly increased their already existing sense of loneliness. We report here on the changes that have occurred in the environment of home childcare and in the mother’s feelings of loneliness during the pandemic. In 2019, we conducted an online survey of mothers who had infants aged 4-12 months. Many of the survey questions concerned the home childcare environment and the mother’s sense of loneliness. In 2020, we conducted a follow-up COVID impact survey using the same questionnaire to determine the impact of the pandemic on the mothers. Because of the impact on mothers of the COVID pandemic, specifically around their methods of gathering information concerning childcare, we found that the child-rearing environment in Japan has detrimentally changed since 2019. Whether or not the mother felt stressed or felt t.. Read More»
  

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