How have children experienced the confinement due to coronavirus

Introduction: children have feelings and experiences that they cannot or will not express and that may manifest through their drawings and imagination The Asociacion Espanola de Pediatria de Atencion Primaria (Spanish Association of Primary Care Pediatrics, AEPap) wanted to explore how children have experienced the confinement Material and methods: we organized a contest through the Family and Health website The study population consisted of children residing anywhere in Spain aged 3 to 16 years The works submitted were drawings, micro stories or micro videos Results: we received 53 works from children in different autonomous communities and gave 5 awards The elements featured most frequently were the coronavirus, figures of children indoors, a rainbow in the clouds and health care professionals Some of the subjects expressed in the works were boredom, missing grandparents and friends, trust in health care professionals, a positive perception of the change in life in the family, the improvement in environmental pollution and a positive view that eve-rything will turn out well Conclusions: the results obtained in this study suggest a generalized optimism and allow us to con-clude that drawings, stories and videos are a useful tool to analyze the perception of this population in risk situations We also ought to highlight the interest of primary care paediatricians in how children have experienced the confinement imposed due to the coronavirus pandemic and raise awareness that children’s drawings should be carefully studied © 2020, Spanish Association of Primary Care Pediatrics All rights reserved