Being A Mother During The Covid-19 Pandemic

Abstract

Purpose: The research was conducted as a descriptive study to determine the mood and behaviors observed by mothers and their children during the pandemic. Method: The research was conducted online between November 2020 and March 2021. Sample selection was not made, volunteer mothers were included in the study and 398 mothers were reached. The data were collected with the prepared questionnaire and the coronavirus-19 phobia scale. Evaluation of the data was made with the SPSS20.0 package program and descriptive statistics were used in the analysis of the data. Results: The mean score of coronavirus-19 phobia of mothers in the study was 49.75±15.69 (min-max 20-100). your mothers; 72.9% of them stated that they had anxiety about their children's health and 19.1% of them stated that they thought they neglected their children. During the pandemic, 45.0% of mothers experienced fear in their children, 23.6% experienced anger and 83.4% had boredom; 74.9% stated that their children tended to use technological devices such as computers/phones/tablets and 59.8% of them stated that they tended to cook together. 1.8% of the mothers did not take any action to protect their children during the pandemic, 82.9% tried to feed their children healthily, 53.3% restricted their children to contact people outside the family, 69.1% protected their children from COVID-19. It has been determined that they clean everything that comes to the house to protect it. Conclusion/recommendations: In order to increase awareness of COVID-19, it is recommended to increase its activities on a community basis.