TY - JOUR AU - Joseph, Hepsi Bai AU - Kuppuswamy, Sandhiya AU - Shetty, Asha Prabhakar PY - 2021/09/22 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Children’s online learning during COVID-19 pandemic: experiences and satisfaction encountered by Indian parents JF - Journal of Ideas in Health JA - jidhealth VL - 4 IS - Special3 SE - Articles DO - 10.47108/jidhealth.Vol4.IssSpecial3.156 UR - https://www.jidhealth.com/index.php/jidhealth/article/view/156 SP - 443-449 AB - <p><strong>Background: </strong>Online learning by children is pressure for children as well as parents. The Covid-19 lockdown was ended up putting much stress on parents in India. The current study aimed to assess the parental experience and satisfaction on online learning for their children during Covid -19 pandemic lockdown.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A cross-sectional web-based survey was conducted among 300 parents of children who attended online learning during the COVID -19 pandemic lockdown. The data was collected using the snowball sampling technique. The survey tool consists of a sociodemographic questionnaire, self-report scales on parent's satisfaction and experiences. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, including mean, frequency, percentage, and inferential statistics such as the Chi-square test.</p><p><strong>Results:</strong> Out of 300 parents surveyed, 72% were mothers, 65.6% of children who attended online classes were from primary class, through zoom platform (52.2%) using an android mobile phone (71.1%) for a mean duration of 180±30 minutes. 80.4% of parents preferred the traditional learning method comparing to online classes for their children. More than half (52.2%) of parents reported that they were partially satisfied with children's online learning, whereas 26% were not satisfied. More than half of the parents (61.1%) experienced a great challenge and burden of online learning.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Parents were worried that prolonged exposure to screen devices in online learning might affect child health's visual, physical, and psychological aspects.</p> ER -