ERIC Number: EJ1449730
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
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Remote Learning and Stress in Mothers of Students with Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder during the COVID-19 Lockdown
Daniela Cvitkovic; Ana Wagner Jakab; Jasmina Stošic
Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, v14 n3 p171-187 2024
The COVID-19 lockdown and the implementation of remote learning brought challenges to children with ADHD and their parents. This research aimed to examine the spatial and technical preconditions and quality of support for children with ADHD during remote learning and to determine their mothers' burdens with the children's school tasks during the first lockdown. Another aim was to determine the degree of academic accommodation of teaching, the mother's burden with the school tasks, and the impact of the intensity of the children's difficulties on mothers' stress levels. The study had 61 mothers of children with ADHD, aged 30 to 53, as participants. Data were collected using an online questionnaire. The perspective of mothers showed that spatial conditions were not appropriate for holding online classes. Furthermore, teaching materials during online classes were not adapted to the child's needs, teachers did not send teaching materials through the available online services in a proper manner, and more than a third of the mothers stated that there was no interactive teaching at all and that there was no individual contact with teachers. Most mothers state that they are burdened with the child's school tasks more than compared to the period before the lockdown. It has also been shown that attention symptoms, lack of academic accommodations, and school workload have statistically significant effects on maternal stress.
Descriptors: Distance Education, Stress Variables, Mothers, Students with Disabilities, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Barriers, Parent Student Relationship, Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Parent Role, Foreign Countries, Family Environment, Technology Uses in Education, Severity (of Disability), Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Elementary School Students, Parent Teacher Cooperation
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Croatia
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