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AUTHOR(S) Marsha Wood; Fran Bennett
AUTHOR(S) Ben Hughes; Kerry Jones
AUTHOR(S) Galit Geulayov; Rohan Borschmann; Karen L. Mansfield (et al.)
Little is known about the perceived acceptability and usefulness of supports that adolescents have accessed following self-harm, especially since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aims to examine the utilization and acceptability of formal, informal, and online support accessed by adolescents following self-harm before and during the pandemic. Cross-sectional survey (OxWell) of 10,560 secondary school students aged 12–18 years in the south of England. Information on self-harm, support(s) accessed after self-harm, and satisfaction with support received were obtained via a structured, self-report questionnaire. No tests for significance were conducted.
AUTHOR(S) Carolyn A. Chew-Graham; Tracy A. Briggs; Binita Kane
‘Long COVID’ describes both ongoing symptomatic COVID-19 (5–12 weeks after onset) and post-COVID-19 syndrome (≥12 weeks after onset). Long COVID is also a patient-preferred term so will be used throughout this editorial to describe symptoms lasting ≥4 weeks after an acute episode of COVID-19. As the phenomenon of long COVID emerged and came to be recognised, including with the publication of the guideline by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, Scottish Intercollegiate Guideline Network, and the Royal College of General Practitioners, there was still limited evidence about whether children and young people could suffer with prolonged symptoms following an acute COVID-19 infection. The general opinion was still that SARS-CoV-2 was a mild infection in the young.
AUTHOR(S) K. Jones; Ben Hughes
AUTHOR(S) Ola Demkowicz; Emma Ashworth; Alisha O’Neill (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Kathryn Asbury; Umar Toseeb
AUTHOR(S) Abigail Fiske; Gaia Scerif; Karla Holmboe
AUTHOR(S) Rebecca Louise McIntyre; Ashley J. Adamson; Michael Nelson (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Helen F. Dodd; Rachel J. Nesbit; Lily FitzGibbon
AUTHOR(S) Ruth Salway; Charlie Foster; Frank de Vocht (et al.)
Restrictions due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic reduced physical activity provision for both children and their parents. Recent studies have reported decreases in physical activity levels during lockdown restrictions, but these were largely reliant on self-report methods, with data collected via unrepresentative self-report surveys. The post-pandemic impacts on children’s activity levels remain unknown. A key question is how active children become once lockdown restrictions are lifted. Active-6 is a repeated cross-sectional natural experiment. Accelerometer data from 1296 children aged 10–11 and their parents were collected in 50 schools in the Greater Bristol area, UK in March 2017-May 2018 (pre-COVID-19 comparator group), and compared to 393 children aged 10–11 and parents in 23 of the same schools, collected in May-December 2021. Mean minutes of accelerometer-measured moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) were derived for weekdays and weekend and compared pre- and post-lockdown via linear multilevel models.
AUTHOR(S) Dolapo Adegboye; Jessica Lennon; Olivia Batterbee (et al.)
There is a need to understand and mitigate the psychological impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic for children known to be vulnerable. Data from prior to the pandemic are required to provide robust assessments of the socio-emotional impacts of COVID-19 and identify those who are more vulnerable. This study capitalises on an ongoing UK study of primary school children (4–8 years) identified prior to the pandemic as “at risk” for mental health problems by teachers. It collected mental health and social-emotional functioning data prior to the pandemic (Time 1) and re-assessed this cohort (N = 143) via researcher-led videocalls during lockdown (Time 2, summer 2020) and post-lockdown, 12 months later (Time 3; summer 2021).
AUTHOR(S) Gillian Santorelli; John Wright; Duncan Cooper (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Norha Vera San Juan; Sian Oram; Vanessa Pinfold (et al.)
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