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Abstract
Children are not indifferent to mental health issues in response to COVID-19 and experienced surge of challenges. Therefore, in the current study children of 8 to 16 years were recruited to investigate the challenges and its impact on children mental health during all three phases of COVID-19. The Colaizzi’s phenomenological method for qualitative analysis was used to investigate the student’s response. The reactions of students were summarized into three themes and sixteen sub-themes considering all three phases of COVID-19. The three major themes are religious concerns, mental health issues, and academic concerns. The findings have been discussed in terms of counselling for mental health issues and devising online education policy to meet children needs and carter their fears.
Keywords
phases of COVID-19, mental health issues, Colaizzi’s phenomenological method, school children, Pakistan
Acknowledgements
Author would like to thank to GIFT University for collaborating together in clinical psychology research to carry out the study.
Publication Date
12-8-2021
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.
DOI
10.46743/2160-3715/2021.4976
Recommended APA Citation
Rehman, S. (2021). Challenges among Children during Three Phases of COVID-19 in Pakistan. The Qualitative Report, 26(12), 3870-3885. https://doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2021.4976
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