Family educational actions with schoolers during COVID-19 confinement

Abstract

Introduction: COVID-19 confinement has created a challenge in raising schoolers.

Objective: Examine the performance of educational actions of the family with the school during the confinement by COVID-19.

Methods: Descriptive research, non-probabilistic sampling, 112 families who complied with social isolation in Ramón López Peña community, San Cristobal, Artemisa province in 2020. Instrument used: "Scale of educational actions of the family with school children during confinement by COVID-19", built and validated by researchers with Cronbach´s alpha = 0.970.

Results: Educational actions as meeting food and sleep schedules (70.6%), distributing roles in child care (70.6%), emotional support (70.6%), supporting with teleclasses (70.6%) were always carried out by families with favorable performance. Actions like helping to recover from negative emotions (72.7%), keeping the schooler away from household concerns and tensions (72.7%), explaining whether they don't understand the contents or looking for help (72.7%) were almost never made by families with unfavorable performance.

Conclusions: Most families had a favorable performance in educational actions. The "Child Care" dimension was the best performed one. Teaching the schoolchildren the hygienic protective measures, provide information to schoolchildren on how to protect themselves, teaching and practicing ways to greet and stay connected with loved ones and friends were the most performed educational actions by both family groups. The complexity of home learning and the child's affective management require special attention.