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Implementation of online classes during national school closure due to COVID‐19 and mental health symptoms of adolescents: A cross‐sectional survey of 5000 students

AIM: Online classes were implemented in numerous schools during the school closure due to COVID‐19. The present study examined the relationship between online classes during national school closure and mental health symptoms after the reopening of schools. METHODS: We conducted a cross‐sectional sur...

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Autores principales: Morishima, Ryo, Koike, Haruna, Kanehara, Akiko, Usui, Kaori, Okada, Naohiro, Ando, Shuntaro, Kasai, Kiyoto
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Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9349532/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37522092
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pcn5.17
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author Morishima, Ryo
Koike, Haruna
Kanehara, Akiko
Usui, Kaori
Okada, Naohiro
Ando, Shuntaro
Kasai, Kiyoto
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Koike, Haruna
Kanehara, Akiko
Usui, Kaori
Okada, Naohiro
Ando, Shuntaro
Kasai, Kiyoto
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description AIM: Online classes were implemented in numerous schools during the school closure due to COVID‐19. The present study examined the relationship between online classes during national school closure and mental health symptoms after the reopening of schools. METHODS: We conducted a cross‐sectional survey from October 1 to November 7, 2020 using an anonymous self‐reported questionnaire to evaluate 21 junior and senior high schools in the Saitama prefecture of Japan. Out of the 5538 students who were recruited, 5000 agreed to participate. The relationship between the implementation of online classes and mental health symptoms (emotional symptoms, psychotic experience [PE], and smartphone addiction) was evaluated using mixed‐effect logistic regression models, while controlling for individual and class‐level covariates (e.g., gender, grades). RESULTS: Implementation of online classes was reported by 78.2% of classroom teachers, and it was associated with lower rates of emotional symptoms (OR = 0.79, 95% CI = 0.63–0.99, p = 0.040) and smartphone addiction (OR = 0.79, 95% CI = 0.65–0.96, p = 0.020), but not related to PE (OR = 0.91, 95% CI = 0.61–1.36, p = 0.637). CONCLUSIONS: Implementing online classes during the national school closure might have had a potential protective effect for adolescents' mental health symptoms (especially emotional symptoms and smartphone addiction) after the reopening of schools during the ongoing COVID‐19 pandemic.
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spelling pubmed-93495322022-08-04 Implementation of online classes during national school closure due to COVID‐19 and mental health symptoms of adolescents: A cross‐sectional survey of 5000 students Morishima, Ryo Koike, Haruna Kanehara, Akiko Usui, Kaori Okada, Naohiro Ando, Shuntaro Kasai, Kiyoto Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences Reports Original Articles AIM: Online classes were implemented in numerous schools during the school closure due to COVID‐19. The present study examined the relationship between online classes during national school closure and mental health symptoms after the reopening of schools. METHODS: We conducted a cross‐sectional survey from October 1 to November 7, 2020 using an anonymous self‐reported questionnaire to evaluate 21 junior and senior high schools in the Saitama prefecture of Japan. Out of the 5538 students who were recruited, 5000 agreed to participate. The relationship between the implementation of online classes and mental health symptoms (emotional symptoms, psychotic experience [PE], and smartphone addiction) was evaluated using mixed‐effect logistic regression models, while controlling for individual and class‐level covariates (e.g., gender, grades). RESULTS: Implementation of online classes was reported by 78.2% of classroom teachers, and it was associated with lower rates of emotional symptoms (OR = 0.79, 95% CI = 0.63–0.99, p = 0.040) and smartphone addiction (OR = 0.79, 95% CI = 0.65–0.96, p = 0.020), but not related to PE (OR = 0.91, 95% CI = 0.61–1.36, p = 0.637). CONCLUSIONS: Implementing online classes during the national school closure might have had a potential protective effect for adolescents' mental health symptoms (especially emotional symptoms and smartphone addiction) after the reopening of schools during the ongoing COVID‐19 pandemic. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022-06-22 2022-06 /pmc/articles/PMC9349532/ /pubmed/37522092 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pcn5.17 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of Japanese Society of Psychiatry and Neurology. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Morishima, Ryo
Koike, Haruna
Kanehara, Akiko
Usui, Kaori
Okada, Naohiro
Ando, Shuntaro
Kasai, Kiyoto
Implementation of online classes during national school closure due to COVID‐19 and mental health symptoms of adolescents: A cross‐sectional survey of 5000 students
title Implementation of online classes during national school closure due to COVID‐19 and mental health symptoms of adolescents: A cross‐sectional survey of 5000 students
title_full Implementation of online classes during national school closure due to COVID‐19 and mental health symptoms of adolescents: A cross‐sectional survey of 5000 students
title_fullStr Implementation of online classes during national school closure due to COVID‐19 and mental health symptoms of adolescents: A cross‐sectional survey of 5000 students
title_full_unstemmed Implementation of online classes during national school closure due to COVID‐19 and mental health symptoms of adolescents: A cross‐sectional survey of 5000 students
title_short Implementation of online classes during national school closure due to COVID‐19 and mental health symptoms of adolescents: A cross‐sectional survey of 5000 students
title_sort implementation of online classes during national school closure due to covid‐19 and mental health symptoms of adolescents: a cross‐sectional survey of 5000 students
topic Original Articles
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9349532/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37522092
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pcn5.17
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