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AUTHOR(S) Laura A. Alba; Jessica Mercado Anazagasty; Anacary Ramirez (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Andrea C. Villanti; S. Elisha LePine; Catherine Peasley-Miklus (et al.)
This study examined the impact of COVID-related disruptions on mental health and substance use in young people residing in a state with an initially lower COVID burden and earlier reopening of in-person learning than other states. Data come from Waves 3 (Fall 2019) and 4 (Fall 2020) of the Policy and Communication Evaluation (PACE) Vermont, an online cohort study of adolescents (ages 12–17) and young adults (ages 18–25). Participants in Wave 4 (212 adolescents; 662 young adults) completed items on COVID-related stressors, the impact of the pandemic on their substance use, brief mental health scales, and past 30-day substance use. Analyses examined correlational and longitudinal relationships between COVID-related stressors, mental health symptoms, and substance use.
AUTHOR(S) Simon F. Haeder; Emily Maxfield; Kara Ulmen (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Gary Glauberman; Daisy Kristina Wong; Kristine Qureshi (et al.)
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in major disruption to economic, health, education, and social systems. Families with preschool children experienced extraordinary strain during this time. This paper describes a qualitative study examining the experience of parents of preschool children in Hawaii during the COVID-19 pandemic. Thirteen (N = 13) parents of preschool children living on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, participated in small group discussions occurring in February and March 2021, approximately 1 year after the start of the pandemic in the state. Discussion transcripts were coded and sorted into themes.
AUTHOR(S) Elisa M. Trucco; Nilofar Fallah-Sohy; Sarah A. Hartmann (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Saijun Zhang; Ying Hao; Yali Feng (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Abha Choudhary; Soumya Adhikari; Perrin C. White
The coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic had widespread impacts on the lives of parents and children. This study determined how the pandemic affected Type 1 diabetes patients at a large urban pediatric teaching hospital. It compared patient characteristics, glycemic control, PHQ-9 depression screen, in person and virtual outpatient encounters, hospitalizations and continuous glucose monitor (CGM) utilization in approximately 1600 patients in 1 year periods preceding and following the local imposition of COVID-related restrictions on 3/15/2020 (“2019” and “2020” groups, respectively).
AUTHOR(S) Kristin L. Andrejko; Jennifer R. Head; Joseph A. Lewnard (et al.)
The San Francisco Bay Area was the first region in the United States to enact school closures to mitigate SARS-CoV-2 transmission. The effects of closures on contact patterns for schoolchildren and their household members remain poorly understood. This study conducted serial cross-sectional surveys (May 2020, September 2020, February 2021) of Bay Area households with children to estimate age-structured daily contact rates for children and their adult household members. It examined changes in contact rates over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, including after vaccination of household members, and compared contact patterns by household demographics using generalized estimating equations clustered by household.
AUTHOR(S) Andres J. Pumariega; Youngsuhk Jo; Brent Beck (et al.)
This paper reviews the literature on the prevalence, risk factors, and effects of traumatic experiences on the mental health outcomes of minority youth in the USA. The USA has an increasing number of children and youth from minority backgrounds. Research reveals that traumatic experiences disproportionately affect minority youth. These experiences include historical/generational trauma, immigration and acculturation stressors, natural and manmade disasters, experiences of discrimination, family violence, and community violence. The COVID-19 pandemic has also disproportionately affected minority youth resulting in illness and hospitalizations. Despite the higher incidence of trauma exposure, minority youth are less likely to access medical and mental health care. These disparities are resulting in increasing rates of depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress, substance use disorders, and suicide in minority youth.
AUTHOR(S) Allison C. Sylvetsky; Jasmine H. Kaidbey; Kace Ferguson (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Joshua Belfer; Lance Feld; Sophia Jan (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Keira B. Leneman; Sydney Levasseur-Puhach; Sarah Gillespie (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Rachel Martin; Sonali Rajan; Faizah Shareef (et al.)
Childhood exposure to neighborhood firearm violence adversely affects mental and physical health across the life course. Study objectives were to (1) quantify racial disparities in these exposures across the U.S. and (2) assess changes during the COVID-19 pandemic, when firearm violence increased. The study used counts of children aged 5–17 years, disaggregated by U.S. Census racial category, for every census tract (N=73,056). Neighborhood firearm violence was the number of fatal shootings per census tract, based on 2015–2021 Gun Violence Archive data. Quasi-Poisson regressions were used to estimate baseline disparities and COVID-19‒related changes and examined differences across geographic regions.
AUTHOR(S) Charles Oberg; H. R. Hodges; Sarah Gander (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Chloe A. Teasdale; Luisa N. Borrell; Yanhan Shen (et al.)
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