The Effect of COVID-19 on Youth Mental Health

By L. Liang, H. Ren, Ruilin Cao, Yueyang Hu, Zeying Qin, Chuanen Li, Songli Mei. Psychiatric quarterly, 2020

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The purposes of this study was to assess the youth mental health after the coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) occurred in China two weeks later, and to investigate factors of mental health among youth groups. A cross-sectional study was conducted two weeks after the occurrence of COVID-19 in China. A total of 584 youth enrolled in this study and completed the question about cognitive status of COVID-19, the General Health Questionnaire(GHQ-12), the PTSD Checklist-Civilian Version (PCL-C) and the Negative coping styles scale. Univariate analysis and univariate logistic regression were used to evaluate the effect of COVID-19 on youth mental health. The results of this cross-sectional study suggest that nearly 40.4% the sampled youth were found to be prone to psychological problems and 14.4% the sampled youth with Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms. Univariate logistic regression revealed that youth mental health was significantly related to being less educated (OR = 8.71, 95%CI:1.97–38.43), being the enterprise employee (OR = 2.36, 95%CI:1.09–5.09), suffering from the PTSD symptom (OR = 1.05, 95%CI:1.03–1.07) and using negative coping styles (OR = 1.03, 95%CI:1.00–1.07). Results of this study suggest that nearly 40.4% of the youth group had a tendency to have psychological problems. Thus, this was a remarkable evidence that infectious diseases, such as COVID-19, may have an immense influence on youth mental health. Therefor, local governments should develop effective psychological interventions for youth groups, moreover, it is important to consider the educational level and occupation of the youth during the interventions.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology

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Child Development During the COVID‐19 Pandemic Through a Life Course Theory Lens (2020, background): “…studies in China suggest heightened levels of psychological problems and PTSD symptoms for some school-aged children, adolescents, and young adults (Liang et al., 2020; Xie et al., 2019; Zhou et al., 2020), and studies of North American 13- to 18-yearolds link certain motivations for…”
Mental Health of Children and Adolescents Amidst COVID-19 and Past Pandemics: A Rapid Systematic Review (2021, background): “Additionally, the development of mental health-coping strategies that integrate the education levels [26] at the various ages of children and adolescents warrants further exploration.”
How is COVID-19 pandemic impacting mental health of children and adolescents? (2020, methodology): “Other mental health scale utilized were stress levels, through the Stress Subscale from Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS-21) [8] and Coping Styles, that were measured by the Simplified Coping Style Questionnaire (SCSQ) [9].”