An investigation of mental health status of children and adolescents in china during the outbreak of COVID-19
By Li Duan, Xiaojun Shao, Yuan Wang, Yinglin Huang, Junxiao Miao, Xueping Yang, G. Zhu. Journal of Affective Disorders, 2020
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Highlight • Children and adolescents who are often neglected in the wake of the outbreak were taken as subjects to investigate their mental health status and analyze the related influencing factors during the global pandemic of COVID-19.• The presence of clinical depressive symptoms, resident in urban regions, implementation of the precaution and control measures, being female, having a family member or friend infected with coronavirus were associated with increased levels of anxiety.• Smartphone addiction, Internet addiction, resident in Hubei province and urban areas, family members or friends infected with coronavirus, graduation affected by the epidemic, levels of separation anxiety, physical injury fear, and tendency to adopt an emotion-focused coping style were associated with increased levels of respondents’ depressive symptoms.• It's urgent to concern and address emotional distress for children and adolescents during the epidemic. Targeted intervention measures could be formulated based on the significant influencing factors on anxiety and clinical depressive symptoms.
Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
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- Mental Health of Children and Adolescents Amidst COVID-19 and Past Pandemics: A Rapid Systematic Review (2021, background): “The consequences of the decline in mental health in young populations lead to engagement in unhealthy behaviors such as substance abuse, absenteeism from work, and school interruptions [22,24,27,28,33].”
- Review: Mental health impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic on children and youth – a systematic review (2021, background): “…positive familial relationships, and social support were associated with better mental health outcomes in several studies (Buzzi et al., 2020; Duan et al., 2020; Gadermann et al., 2021; Jiao et al., 2020), suggesting they may contribute to mental health resilience during the pandemic.”
- Psychological effects of the COVID-19 lockdown on children and families in the UK (2020, result): “…children in the UK are likely to have been impacted emotionally and behaviourally by the lockdown and are in alignment with other studies about the consequences of COVID-19 lockdown on child mental health and well-being in Italy and Spain (Orgilés et al., 2020) and in China (Duan et al., 2020).”
- The impact of COVID-19 lockdown on internet use and escapism in adolescents (2020, background): “According to Duan et al. (2020) adolescents in Hubei province of China, where the population experienced the first outbreak of COVID-19, adolescent depressive symptoms were directly linked with anxiety which stems from fear of outbreak and fear of infection.”
- Impact of COVID-19 on Mental Health in Adolescents: A Systematic Review (2021, background): “Five studies (31%) addressed depression among non-special populations and identified an association between the pandemic and depression [17,25,27,28,30].”