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Stronger together: Coping behaviours and mental health changes of Canadian adolescents in early phases of the COVID-19 pandemic

BACKGROUND: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and consequent public health restrictions on the mental health of adolescents is of global concern. The purpose of this study was to examine how Canadian adolescents coped during the early pandemic and whether different coping methods were associated w...

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Autores principales: Riazi, Negin A., Battista, Katelyn, Duncan, Markus J., Wade, Terrance J., Pickett, William, Ferro, Mark A., Leatherdale, Scott T., Patte, Karen A.
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9924880/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36782178
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-15249-y
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author Riazi, Negin A.
Battista, Katelyn
Duncan, Markus J.
Wade, Terrance J.
Pickett, William
Ferro, Mark A.
Leatherdale, Scott T.
Patte, Karen A.
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Battista, Katelyn
Duncan, Markus J.
Wade, Terrance J.
Pickett, William
Ferro, Mark A.
Leatherdale, Scott T.
Patte, Karen A.
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description BACKGROUND: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and consequent public health restrictions on the mental health of adolescents is of global concern. The purpose of this study was to examine how Canadian adolescents coped during the early pandemic and whether different coping methods were associated with changes in mental health from before the pandemic to the early lockdown response. METHODS: Using two-year linked survey data (2018–2020) from a prospective cohort of secondary school students (n = 3,577), linear regression models were used to examine whether changes in mental health (anxiety [Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 scale], depression [Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression 10-item scale Revised], emotion regulation [Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale], psychosocial well-being [Flourishing scale]) were related to each coping behaviour. RESULTS: The most common reported coping behaviours included staying connected with friends online (78.8%), playing video games, watching TV/movies, and/or surfing the internet/social media (76.2%), studying or working on schoolwork (71.0%), and getting exercise (65.2%). The use of positive coping mechanisms during the early pandemic period (e.g., keeping a regular schedule, time with family, time with friends online) was associated with less adverse mental health changes from before to during the early lockdown; whereas, negative coping mechanisms (e.g., spending time alone, eating junk food) were consistently associated with more adverse mental health changes. CONCLUSION: This study demonstrates the importance of social support and connections with both friends and family, as well as keeping and maintaining a routine, over the pandemic. Interventions supporting positive relationships and engagement in these coping behaviours may be protective for adolescent mental health during disruptive events. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12889-023-15249-y.
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spelling pubmed-99248802023-02-14 Stronger together: Coping behaviours and mental health changes of Canadian adolescents in early phases of the COVID-19 pandemic Riazi, Negin A. Battista, Katelyn Duncan, Markus J. Wade, Terrance J. Pickett, William Ferro, Mark A. Leatherdale, Scott T. Patte, Karen A. BMC Public Health Research BACKGROUND: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and consequent public health restrictions on the mental health of adolescents is of global concern. The purpose of this study was to examine how Canadian adolescents coped during the early pandemic and whether different coping methods were associated with changes in mental health from before the pandemic to the early lockdown response. METHODS: Using two-year linked survey data (2018–2020) from a prospective cohort of secondary school students (n = 3,577), linear regression models were used to examine whether changes in mental health (anxiety [Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 scale], depression [Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression 10-item scale Revised], emotion regulation [Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale], psychosocial well-being [Flourishing scale]) were related to each coping behaviour. RESULTS: The most common reported coping behaviours included staying connected with friends online (78.8%), playing video games, watching TV/movies, and/or surfing the internet/social media (76.2%), studying or working on schoolwork (71.0%), and getting exercise (65.2%). The use of positive coping mechanisms during the early pandemic period (e.g., keeping a regular schedule, time with family, time with friends online) was associated with less adverse mental health changes from before to during the early lockdown; whereas, negative coping mechanisms (e.g., spending time alone, eating junk food) were consistently associated with more adverse mental health changes. CONCLUSION: This study demonstrates the importance of social support and connections with both friends and family, as well as keeping and maintaining a routine, over the pandemic. Interventions supporting positive relationships and engagement in these coping behaviours may be protective for adolescent mental health during disruptive events. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12889-023-15249-y. BioMed Central 2023-02-13 /pmc/articles/PMC9924880/ /pubmed/36782178 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-15249-y Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Riazi, Negin A.
Battista, Katelyn
Duncan, Markus J.
Wade, Terrance J.
Pickett, William
Ferro, Mark A.
Leatherdale, Scott T.
Patte, Karen A.
Stronger together: Coping behaviours and mental health changes of Canadian adolescents in early phases of the COVID-19 pandemic
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title_full Stronger together: Coping behaviours and mental health changes of Canadian adolescents in early phases of the COVID-19 pandemic
title_fullStr Stronger together: Coping behaviours and mental health changes of Canadian adolescents in early phases of the COVID-19 pandemic
title_full_unstemmed Stronger together: Coping behaviours and mental health changes of Canadian adolescents in early phases of the COVID-19 pandemic
title_short Stronger together: Coping behaviours and mental health changes of Canadian adolescents in early phases of the COVID-19 pandemic
title_sort stronger together: coping behaviours and mental health changes of canadian adolescents in early phases of the covid-19 pandemic
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9924880/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36782178
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-15249-y
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