@article{Panagi_L-2024_183758,
title = {Mental health in the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal analysis of the CLoCk cohort study},
author = {Panagi, L. and White, S. and Pinto Pereira, S. and Nugawela, M. and Heyman, I. and Sharma, K. and Stephenson, T. and Chalder, T. and Rojas, N. and Dalrymple, E. and McOwat, K. and Simmons, R. and Swann, O. and Ford, T. and Shafran, R. and CLoCk Consortium},
month = {jan},
year = {2024},
abstract = {BACKGROUND: Little is known about the long-term mental health consequences of the pandemic in children and young people (CYP), despite extremely high levels of exposure to the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) virus and the disruption to schooling and leisure activities due to the resultant restrictions. There are mixed findings from systematic reviews of how the pandemic affected CYP's mental health, which may be due to heterogeneous methods and poor quality studies. Most, but not all, suggest deterioration in mental health but population level studies may obscure the differing experiences of subgroups. The study questions are: (i) are there subgroups of CYP with distinct mental health profiles over the course of the second year of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic (between April 2021 and May 2022); and (ii) do vulnerability factors influence CYP's mental health trajectories.},
volume = {21},
issue = {1},
journal = {PLoS Medicine},
publisher = {Public Library of Science},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1004315},
}
