{"doi":"10.1016/j.chipro.2024.100046","title":"Pre-pandemic individual and household predictors of caregiver and child COVID-19-related stress in a high-risk sample","abstract":"Many families experienced increased stress during the COVID-19 pandemic and families recently investigated for child maltreatment may have been at particularly high risk. However, little research has focused on pre-pandemic individual and household predictors of COVID-19-related stress among such families who may have been especially vulnerable to the pandemic. The present study prospectively examined pre-pandemic predictors of caregiver and child COVID-19-related stress in a sample of caregivers and children investigated for child maltreatment prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants included children (N = 285), ages 8–13, and their caregivers (N = 246) investigated for child maltreatment prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Multiple linear regression models were run to separately predict caregiver and child COVID-19-related stress from pre-pandemic household chaos, caregiver and child emotion regulation, caregiver psychological distress, and sociodemographic characteristics. Black caregivers and children reported significantly more COVID-19-related stress than White caregivers and children (b = 2.27, p = 0.006 and b = 1.70, p = 0.013, respectively). Hispanic children reported more COVID-19-related stress than non-Hispanic children (b = 2.12, p < 0.001). Caregivers' pre-pandemic psychological distress also predicted their children's COVID-19-related stress (b = 1.80, p = 0.001). Household dysfunction and child and caregiver emotion regulation were unrelated to subsequent COVID-19-related stress (ps > 0.05). There is a need to support minority families and address mental health concerns to prevent disparate outcomes in the face of stressors.","journal":"Child Protection and Practice","year":2024,"id":480590,"datarank":0.10397207708399181,"base_score":0.6931471805599453,"endowment":0.6931471805599453,"self_citation_contribution":0.10397207708399181,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.10397207708399181,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":1,"citer_count":1,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9502,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2024-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":603361,"name":"Chad E. Shenk","orcid":"0000-0001-6700-5656","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":687764,"name":"Zachary F. Fisher","orcid":"0000-0003-2744-5141","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":399019,"name":"Christine M. Heim","orcid":null,"position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":426585,"name":"Jennie G. Noll","orcid":"0000-0001-7198-1537","position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":399973,"name":"Idan Shalev","orcid":"0000-0003-0773-4835","position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":809117,"name":"Hannah M. C. Schreier","orcid":"0000-0002-3566-6019","position":6,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":761863,"name":"Anneke E. Olson","orcid":"0000-0002-0135-6442","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":76,"raw_metadata":{"citation_network_status":"fetched"},"created_at":"2026-07-19T02:07:02.142014Z","pmid":"40881609","pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}