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This study aims to examine the opinions of parents with children with special needs regarding the distance education process by using SWOT analysis. The research was carried out in the phenomenology study model, which is one of the qualitative research methods. The study group of the study consists of 10 parents who have children with special needs and who voluntarily agree to participate in the study. The data of the research were obtained by using the semi-structured "Special Education Evaluation Form in Distance Education" prepared by the researchers. SWOT analysis was performed on the written documents collected within the scope of the research by using the content analysis method. As a result of the research; It has been observed that parents of children with special needs have many advantages for their children and themselves, but they have difficulties in certain areas due to some limitations of distance education. The results of the research were discussed concerning the literature and recommendations were made.

COVID-19 pandemic has had a negative impact on individuals both psychologically and socially. The current research shows that problematic technology use and mental health problems increased during the pandemic period. In this study, studies examining the relationship between problematic technology use and mental health problems in the COVID-19 pandemic were examined and a meta-analysis was conducted. The present meta-analysis focused on the problematic technology use (i.e., internet addiction, smartphone ad diction, social media addiction, and game addiction) and mental health problems in the COVID -19 pandemic. Searches were conducted for relevant studies using the ProQuest, PubMed, Science Direct, Scopus, Web of Science, ERIC, and TR Dizin databases. A total of 56 studies met the inclusion criteria. A total of 53,047 participants were reached in these studies. Rosenthal’s classic fail-safe N analysis reveals that the meta-analysis result is statistically significant (p=.000). Moreover, the fact that the Begg and Mazumdar rank correlation is not significant indicates the absence of publication bias (p=0.28). In addition, no missing studies were found in Duval and Tweedie’s trim and fill analysis. The results demonstrated that problematic technology use was moderately positively correlated with mental health problems (r=0.33, n=53.047). In addition, the Q statistic (1833.059) examined to control heterogeneity shows that all variables are heterogeneous. The results of the I2 statistic (93.4%) show that a high level of heterogeneity has been achieved. This finding shows that problematic technology use was associated with various mental health problems during the pandemic period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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