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An investigation of mental health status of children and adolescents in china during the outbreak of COVID-19
OBJECTIVE: : The sudden outbreak of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has had a dramatic effect on the mental health of the public. In the present study, we demonstrated the psychological effects on children and adolescents associated with the epidemic . METHODS: : By using convenience sampling me...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7329661/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32658812 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2020.06.029 |
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author | Duan, Li Shao, Xiaojun Wang, Yuan Huang, Yinglin Miao, Junxiao Yang, Xueping Zhu, Gang |
author_facet | Duan, Li Shao, Xiaojun Wang, Yuan Huang, Yinglin Miao, Junxiao Yang, Xueping Zhu, Gang |
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description | OBJECTIVE: : The sudden outbreak of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has had a dramatic effect on the mental health of the public. In the present study, we demonstrated the psychological effects on children and adolescents associated with the epidemic . METHODS: : By using convenience sampling method, questionnaires, such as Spence Child Anxiety Scale, Child Depression Inventory and Coping style Scale, were distributed to participating 359 children and 3254 adolescents online. RESULTS: : The anxiety levels of children and adolescents were (23.87 ± 15.79) and (29.27 ± 19.79), respectively. 22.28% respondents were suffering from depressive symptoms. Seven significant factors associated with increased levels of anxiety, including female, resident in urban regions, emotion-focused coping style. Nine factors associated with increased levels of depression, such as smartphone addiction (OR 1.411, 95% CI 1.099–1.180), Internet addiction (OR 1.844, 95% CI 1.209–2.811), and resident in Hubei province (OR 3.107, 95% CI 1.252–7.708). Two additional factors associated with decreased levels of depressive symptoms: hours spend on Internet per day before the epidemic (OR 0.652, 95% CI 0.609–0.697) and tendency to apply problem-focused coping style (OR 0.937, 95% CI 0.923–0.951). CONCLUSION: : Our findings indicate that the COVID-19 outbreak has had a significant psychosocial impact on children and adolescents. Findings of current levels of anxiety and depression not only highlight the need to address emotional distress for children and adolescents during the epidemic but also provide researchers with scientific fundamentals to formulate targeted interventions based on the significant influencing factors. |
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spelling | pubmed-73296612020-07-02 An investigation of mental health status of children and adolescents in china during the outbreak of COVID-19 Duan, Li Shao, Xiaojun Wang, Yuan Huang, Yinglin Miao, Junxiao Yang, Xueping Zhu, Gang J Affect Disord Article OBJECTIVE: : The sudden outbreak of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has had a dramatic effect on the mental health of the public. In the present study, we demonstrated the psychological effects on children and adolescents associated with the epidemic . METHODS: : By using convenience sampling method, questionnaires, such as Spence Child Anxiety Scale, Child Depression Inventory and Coping style Scale, were distributed to participating 359 children and 3254 adolescents online. RESULTS: : The anxiety levels of children and adolescents were (23.87 ± 15.79) and (29.27 ± 19.79), respectively. 22.28% respondents were suffering from depressive symptoms. Seven significant factors associated with increased levels of anxiety, including female, resident in urban regions, emotion-focused coping style. Nine factors associated with increased levels of depression, such as smartphone addiction (OR 1.411, 95% CI 1.099–1.180), Internet addiction (OR 1.844, 95% CI 1.209–2.811), and resident in Hubei province (OR 3.107, 95% CI 1.252–7.708). Two additional factors associated with decreased levels of depressive symptoms: hours spend on Internet per day before the epidemic (OR 0.652, 95% CI 0.609–0.697) and tendency to apply problem-focused coping style (OR 0.937, 95% CI 0.923–0.951). CONCLUSION: : Our findings indicate that the COVID-19 outbreak has had a significant psychosocial impact on children and adolescents. Findings of current levels of anxiety and depression not only highlight the need to address emotional distress for children and adolescents during the epidemic but also provide researchers with scientific fundamentals to formulate targeted interventions based on the significant influencing factors. Elsevier B.V. 2020-10-01 2020-07-02 /pmc/articles/PMC7329661/ /pubmed/32658812 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2020.06.029 Text en © 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Duan, Li Shao, Xiaojun Wang, Yuan Huang, Yinglin Miao, Junxiao Yang, Xueping Zhu, Gang An investigation of mental health status of children and adolescents in china during the outbreak of COVID-19 |
title | An investigation of mental health status of children and adolescents in china during the outbreak of COVID-19 |
title_full | An investigation of mental health status of children and adolescents in china during the outbreak of COVID-19 |
title_fullStr | An investigation of mental health status of children and adolescents in china during the outbreak of COVID-19 |
title_full_unstemmed | An investigation of mental health status of children and adolescents in china during the outbreak of COVID-19 |
title_short | An investigation of mental health status of children and adolescents in china during the outbreak of COVID-19 |
title_sort | investigation of mental health status of children and adolescents in china during the outbreak of covid-19 |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7329661/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32658812 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2020.06.029 |
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