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The mental condition of Polish adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic and war in Ukraine
Recently, the experience of the COVID-19 global pandemic has significantly affected the mental condition of entire societies by increasing anxiety and stress resulting from its sudden and completely unexpected nature. In Poland, apart from the pandemic, there is an ongoing threat of an armed conflic...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10617677/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37915812 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1257384 |
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author | Wójtowicz-Szefler, Małgorzata Grzankowska, Izabela Deja, Monika |
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description | Recently, the experience of the COVID-19 global pandemic has significantly affected the mental condition of entire societies by increasing anxiety and stress resulting from its sudden and completely unexpected nature. In Poland, apart from the pandemic, there is an ongoing threat of an armed conflict just across the border, which can constitute direct and indirect threats to physical and mental health. Each of these situations is unusual and difficult. It is also in sharp contrast to the developmental needs of children and adolescents. It especially violates the principal need of this developmental period, which is to grow up in a predictable as well as physically and emotionally safe environment. The purpose of the conducted research was to assess the psychological condition of Polish adolescents, whose social situation is difficult, in order to take appropriate preventive measures based on this assessment. The study was conducted using the “Who are You?” Scale of Transparency Anxiety and the Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale (RCADS), as well as a researcher-made survey containing questions about well-being in relation to the pandemic, distance learning and the ongoing war in a neighbouring country. Approval was obtained from the Bioethics Committee to conduct the projected research. The study included 945 adolescents aged 11 to 15 (M = 13.10; SD = 1.11) making a representative sample of adolescents from 14 regions in Poland. The results of the research and analyses show that the adolescents under study have a medium level of intensity of neuroticism, with the highest levels occurring in adolescents aged 14. Moreover, the adolescents manifest relatively lower symptoms of anxiety and depression as well as concern about the pandemic and the war in Ukraine than expected. |
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spelling | pubmed-106176772023-11-01 The mental condition of Polish adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic and war in Ukraine Wójtowicz-Szefler, Małgorzata Grzankowska, Izabela Deja, Monika Front Public Health Public Health Recently, the experience of the COVID-19 global pandemic has significantly affected the mental condition of entire societies by increasing anxiety and stress resulting from its sudden and completely unexpected nature. In Poland, apart from the pandemic, there is an ongoing threat of an armed conflict just across the border, which can constitute direct and indirect threats to physical and mental health. Each of these situations is unusual and difficult. It is also in sharp contrast to the developmental needs of children and adolescents. It especially violates the principal need of this developmental period, which is to grow up in a predictable as well as physically and emotionally safe environment. The purpose of the conducted research was to assess the psychological condition of Polish adolescents, whose social situation is difficult, in order to take appropriate preventive measures based on this assessment. The study was conducted using the “Who are You?” Scale of Transparency Anxiety and the Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale (RCADS), as well as a researcher-made survey containing questions about well-being in relation to the pandemic, distance learning and the ongoing war in a neighbouring country. Approval was obtained from the Bioethics Committee to conduct the projected research. The study included 945 adolescents aged 11 to 15 (M = 13.10; SD = 1.11) making a representative sample of adolescents from 14 regions in Poland. The results of the research and analyses show that the adolescents under study have a medium level of intensity of neuroticism, with the highest levels occurring in adolescents aged 14. Moreover, the adolescents manifest relatively lower symptoms of anxiety and depression as well as concern about the pandemic and the war in Ukraine than expected. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-10-16 /pmc/articles/PMC10617677/ /pubmed/37915812 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1257384 Text en Copyright © 2023 Wójtowicz-Szefler, Grzankowska and Deja. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Public Health Wójtowicz-Szefler, Małgorzata Grzankowska, Izabela Deja, Monika The mental condition of Polish adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic and war in Ukraine |
title | The mental condition of Polish adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic and war in Ukraine |
title_full | The mental condition of Polish adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic and war in Ukraine |
title_fullStr | The mental condition of Polish adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic and war in Ukraine |
title_full_unstemmed | The mental condition of Polish adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic and war in Ukraine |
title_short | The mental condition of Polish adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic and war in Ukraine |
title_sort | mental condition of polish adolescents during the covid-19 pandemic and war in ukraine |
topic | Public Health |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10617677/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37915812 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1257384 |
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