Parental Mental Health and Child Maltreatment in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Importance of Sampling in a Quantitative Statistical Study

Lara Engelke   ¹ , BSc, MSc ;   Claudia Calvano   ^{2, 3} , PhD ;   Steffi Pohl   ⁴ , MSc, PhD ;   Sibylle Maria Winter   ^{3, 5 *} , MD ;   Babette Renneberg   ^{1, 3 *} , PhD

¹ Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Department of Education and Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

² Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology and Psychotherapy, Department of Education and Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

³ German Center for Mental Health (DZPG), Berlin, Germany

⁴ Division Methods and Evaluation, Department of Education and Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

⁵ Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

*these authors contributed equally