Erratum: Caregivers' mental distress and child health during the COVID-19 outbreak in Japan (PLoS ONE (2020) 15:12 (e0243702) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0243702)

Abstract

There is an error in the eighth sentence of the Abstract. The correct sentence is: After adjusting for covariates, child health issues increased among caregivers with moderate mental distress (odds ratio 2.21, 95% confidence interval 1.56-3.12) and severe mental distress (odds ratio 3.11, 95% confidence interval 2.21-4.39) compared with caregivers with no mental distress. There are also errors in the fifth and seventh sentences in the third paragraph of the Results. The correct fifth sentence is: Odds of child health issues were higher among participants with moderate mental distress (OR 2.21, 95% CI 1.56-3.12) and severe mental distress (OR 3.11, 95% CI 2.21-4.39), compared with those with no mental distress. The correct seventh sentence is: There was no interaction between the effects of the caregiver's mental status and caregiver's gender (p = 0.765), caregiver's age (p = 0.114), child's gender (p = 0.324), child's age (p = 0.740), and school closure (p = 0.429) on child health condition.