TY - JOUR
AU - Panagi, Laura
AU - White, Simon R
AU - Pinto Pereira, Snehal M.
AU - Nugawela, Manjula D
AU - Heyman, Isobel
AU - Sharma, Kishan
AU - Stephenson, Terence
AU - Chalder, Trudie
AU - Rojas, Natalia K
AU - Dalrymple, Emma
AU - McOwat, Kelsey
AU - Simmons, Ruth
AU - Swann, Olivia
AU - Ford, Tamsin
AU - Shafran, Roz
AU - CLoCk Consortium
PY - 2024
DA - January
TI - Mental health in the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal analysis of the CLoCk cohort study
JO - PLoS Medicine
VL - 21
IS - 1
DO - https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1004315
AB - 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.
PB - Public Library of Science
UR - https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/publications/c763d57d-d55b-4655-afc7-673b84c7f1ac
KW - Coronavirus (COVID-19)
KW - Mental health and wellbeing
ER