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Evaluating the psychosocial status of BC children and youth during the COVID-19 pandemic: A MyHEARTSMAP cross-sectional study

BACKGROUND: Understanding the psychosocial status of children and adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic is vital to the appropriate and adequate allocation of social supports and mental health resources. This study evaluates the burden of mental health concerns and the impact of demographic facto...

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Autores principales: Woodward, Melissa L., Hossain, Abrar, Chun, Alaina, Liu, Cindy, Kilyk, Kaitlyn, Bone, Jeffrey N., Meckler, Garth, Black, Tyler, Stewart, S. Evelyn, Samji, Hasina, Barbic, Skye, Doan, Quynh
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Publicado: Public Library of Science 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10065280/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37000793
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0281083
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author Woodward, Melissa L.
Hossain, Abrar
Chun, Alaina
Liu, Cindy
Kilyk, Kaitlyn
Bone, Jeffrey N.
Meckler, Garth
Black, Tyler
Stewart, S. Evelyn
Samji, Hasina
Barbic, Skye
Doan, Quynh
author_facet Woodward, Melissa L.
Hossain, Abrar
Chun, Alaina
Liu, Cindy
Kilyk, Kaitlyn
Bone, Jeffrey N.
Meckler, Garth
Black, Tyler
Stewart, S. Evelyn
Samji, Hasina
Barbic, Skye
Doan, Quynh
author_sort Woodward, Melissa L.
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description BACKGROUND: Understanding the psychosocial status of children and adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic is vital to the appropriate and adequate allocation of social supports and mental health resources. This study evaluates the burden of mental health concerns and the impact of demographic factors while tracking mental health service recommendations to inform community service needs. METHODS: MyHEARTSMAP is a digital self-assessment mental health evaluation completed by children and their guardian throughout British Columbia between August 2020 to July 2021. Severity of mental health concerns was evaluated across psychiatric, social, functioning, and youth health domains. Proportional odds modelling evaluated the impact of demographic factors on severity. Recommendations for support services were provided based on the evaluation. RESULTS: We recruited 541 families who completed 424 psychosocial assessments on individual children. Some degree of difficulty across the psychiatric, social, or functional domains was reported for more than half of children and adolescents. Older youth and those not attending any formal school or education program were more likely to report greater psychiatric difficulty. Girls experienced greater social concerns, and children attending full-time school at-home were more likely to identify difficulty within the youth health domain but were not more likely to have psychiatric difficulties. Considerations to access community mental health service were triggered in the majority (74%) of cases. CONCLUSIONS: Psychosocial concerns are highly prevalent amongst children and adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on identified needs of this cohort, additional community health supports are required, particularly for higher risk groups.
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spelling pubmed-100652802023-04-01 Evaluating the psychosocial status of BC children and youth during the COVID-19 pandemic: A MyHEARTSMAP cross-sectional study Woodward, Melissa L. Hossain, Abrar Chun, Alaina Liu, Cindy Kilyk, Kaitlyn Bone, Jeffrey N. Meckler, Garth Black, Tyler Stewart, S. Evelyn Samji, Hasina Barbic, Skye Doan, Quynh PLoS One Research Article BACKGROUND: Understanding the psychosocial status of children and adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic is vital to the appropriate and adequate allocation of social supports and mental health resources. This study evaluates the burden of mental health concerns and the impact of demographic factors while tracking mental health service recommendations to inform community service needs. METHODS: MyHEARTSMAP is a digital self-assessment mental health evaluation completed by children and their guardian throughout British Columbia between August 2020 to July 2021. Severity of mental health concerns was evaluated across psychiatric, social, functioning, and youth health domains. Proportional odds modelling evaluated the impact of demographic factors on severity. Recommendations for support services were provided based on the evaluation. RESULTS: We recruited 541 families who completed 424 psychosocial assessments on individual children. Some degree of difficulty across the psychiatric, social, or functional domains was reported for more than half of children and adolescents. Older youth and those not attending any formal school or education program were more likely to report greater psychiatric difficulty. Girls experienced greater social concerns, and children attending full-time school at-home were more likely to identify difficulty within the youth health domain but were not more likely to have psychiatric difficulties. Considerations to access community mental health service were triggered in the majority (74%) of cases. CONCLUSIONS: Psychosocial concerns are highly prevalent amongst children and adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on identified needs of this cohort, additional community health supports are required, particularly for higher risk groups. Public Library of Science 2023-03-31 /pmc/articles/PMC10065280/ /pubmed/37000793 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0281083 Text en © 2023 Woodward et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Woodward, Melissa L.
Hossain, Abrar
Chun, Alaina
Liu, Cindy
Kilyk, Kaitlyn
Bone, Jeffrey N.
Meckler, Garth
Black, Tyler
Stewart, S. Evelyn
Samji, Hasina
Barbic, Skye
Doan, Quynh
Evaluating the psychosocial status of BC children and youth during the COVID-19 pandemic: A MyHEARTSMAP cross-sectional study
title Evaluating the psychosocial status of BC children and youth during the COVID-19 pandemic: A MyHEARTSMAP cross-sectional study
title_full Evaluating the psychosocial status of BC children and youth during the COVID-19 pandemic: A MyHEARTSMAP cross-sectional study
title_fullStr Evaluating the psychosocial status of BC children and youth during the COVID-19 pandemic: A MyHEARTSMAP cross-sectional study
title_full_unstemmed Evaluating the psychosocial status of BC children and youth during the COVID-19 pandemic: A MyHEARTSMAP cross-sectional study
title_short Evaluating the psychosocial status of BC children and youth during the COVID-19 pandemic: A MyHEARTSMAP cross-sectional study
title_sort evaluating the psychosocial status of bc children and youth during the covid-19 pandemic: a myheartsmap cross-sectional study
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10065280/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37000793
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0281083
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