Impacto psicosocial de la pandemia COVID 19, en niños y niñas de 7 a 8 años en una unidad educativa privada de la ciudad de Quito.

Abstract

The confinement derived from the COVID-19 pandemic left significant havoc in its wake in the areas of health, psychosocial, educational, economic and labor; leaving instability, pain and death as a result. This context especially affected children, who were limited in the development of cognitive functions and social skills due to confinement. Furthermore, the impact was evident in their emotional and psychosocial growth, as they were unable to interact or relate to their peers, and in turn, the lack of an adequate socialization process relevant to children of their age that would enable the development of behaviors. and knowledge in the construction of their personality, even when they lived with their family, it does not replace the interaction that exists with other children of their age. The aforementioned was a motivation to determine the psychosocial effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the child population, in a private educational unit in the city of Quito, for which a mixed methodological investigation was carried out with a non-experimental design, During confinement, the interview on Socio-Emotional Aspects in the Context of COVID 19 was carried out, through which it was evident that families acquired new coexistence routines, and the Childhood Depression Questionnaire was also used, for a sample of 36 students. The results showed that 13.8% of the general population presented depression, while the rest of the arithmetic average did not present depressive symptoms