Perception of isolation and child development of children who attend to child care centres in the province of Córdoba from the perspective of educators
The return to face-to-face activities, after the Mandatory Social Isolation measures (ASPO_ COVID 19), in public child care centres requires information to adjust the reconfiguration of childcare. Objective: To investigate the educators´perception in relation to the impact of isolation on the daily...
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Universidad Nacional Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Médicas. Secretaria de Ciencia y Tecnología
2022
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| Sumario: | The return to face-to-face activities, after the Mandatory Social Isolation measures (ASPO_ COVID 19), in public child care centres requires information to adjust the reconfiguration of childcare. Objective: To investigate the educators´perception in relation to the impact of isolation on the daily life of families when return to face-to-face contact with children in care centres.
A survey was applied in 2021 to public child care centres educators. The questionnaire of the Covid 19 Social Sciences Commission MINCyT-CONICET-AGENCIA (2020) was adapted. The non-probabilistic sample consisted of 136 records that included the 74 public child care centres in the province of Córdoba that participated in a training session of the Defense Office for NyNy Adolescents in the province of Córdoba. The frequency distribution and adjusted Chi-square test or McNemar test were analyzed as appropriate for the categorical variables (95% confidence level) and an interpretive qualitative analysis of the open responses of the questionnaire.
70.54% of the educators belong to care centres in the interior of the province. 80% of the staff has between 1 to 5 years of seniority, 63.74% have higher education, with this level of training predominating in the interior chil care centres (p=0.03), and the functions they perform are auxiliary (35%), cook/cleaner (1.55%), teacher (61.24%) and another 2.33%. 85.48% of the educators believe that the ASPO affected the children who attend the care centres. They consider that the main challenges for the families were difficulties in subsistence and work and, in relation to the perceived demands, it was the food supply. Faced with the new way of exercising their functions, the educators felt: alert, uncertainty, conformity. To the question of how they found the children in their development, the cognitive, emotional and social aspects predominated (p<0.001): attitudes of fear, withdrawal, demotivation, among others, were mentioned; behaviors expressed in anger and aggression became visible. How did they feel about the new way of performing their duties: alert, uncertainty, conformity. To the question of how they found the children in their development, the cognitive, emotional and social aspects predominated (p<0.001); attitudes of fear, withdrawal, demotivation, among others, were mentioned; behaviors expressed in anger and aggression became visible.
The impact of the ASPO on the families of the children who attend the child care centres refers mainly to economic difficulties to cover their food requirements. |
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