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AUTHOR(S) Christian R. Mejia; Aldo Alvarez-Risco; Yaniré M. Mejía (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Chiara Ionio; Giulia Ciuffo; Federica Villa (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Tanya Halsall; Kianna Mahmoud; Srividya N. Iyer (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Ryunosuke Goto; Aurelie Piedvache; Mayumi Hangai (et al.)
Given their unique COVID-19 pandemic experience, it is necessary to evaluate the mental health of youth beyond the initial stages of the pandemic, in relation to the stringency of the social distancing measures. This study aimed to describe long-term trends in emotional well-being and self-esteem among youth in Japan during the pandemic. Using serial cross-sectional data from April 2020 to December 2021, it evaluated the trends in emotional well-being and self-esteem of youth aged 6–17 years using the self-report KINDL questionnaire, weighted to represent the age and gender distributions in the Japanese population. It then tested the associations between emotional well-being and self-esteem and stringency of social distancing policies, measured using the Oxford COVID-19 Stringency Index. Analyses were also stratified by gender and age group.
AUTHOR(S) Qinglin Cheng; Gang Zhao; Junfang Chen (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Franziska Rockstroh; Michael Kaess
AUTHOR(S) Tülay Kuzlu Ayyıldız; Betül Akkoç; Aylin Kurt
AUTHOR(S) Xiaobo Wang; Xiong Lu; Tao Hu (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Linda Charmaraman; Elizabeth Kiel; Amanda M. Richer (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Flurina Potter; Katalin Dohrmann; Brigitte Rockstroh (et al.)
Accumulating evidence highlights the importance of pre- and post- migration stressors on refugees’ mental health and integration. In addition to migration-associated stressors, experiences earlier in life such as physical abuse in childhood as well as current life stress as produced by the COVID-19-pandemic may impair mental health and successful integration – yet evidence on these further risks is still limited. The present study explicitly focused on the impact of severe physical abuse in childhood during the COVID-19 pandemic and evaluated the impact of these additional stressors on emotional distress and integration of refugees in Germany. The sample included 80 refugees, 88.8% male, mean age 19.7 years. In a semi-structured interview, trained psychologists screened for emotional distress, using the Refugee Health Screener, and integration status, using the Integration Index. The experience of severe physical abuse in childhood was quantified as a yes/no response to the question: “Have you been hit so badly before the age of 15 that you had to go to hospital or needed medical attention?” Multiple hierarchical regression analyses further included gender, age, residence status, months since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and length of stay in Germany to predict emotional distress and integration.
AUTHOR(S) Tamsin Newlove-Delgado; Abigail Emma Russell; Frances Mathews (et al.)
The high volume and pace of research has posed challenges to researchers, policymakers and practitioners wanting to understand the overall impact of the pandemic on children and young people's mental health. This study aimed to search for and review the evidence from epidemiological studies to answer the question: how has mental health changed in the general population of children and young people? Four databases (Medline, CINAHL, EMBASE and PsychINFO) were searched in October 2021, with searches updated in February 2022.
AUTHOR(S) Shuheng Yu; Liu Hong; Gaoming Ma
AUTHOR(S) Pablo A. Pérez-Díaz; Sergio Nuno-Vasquez; Matheus França Perazzo (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Kimberley C. Tsujimoto; Katherine Tombeau Cost; Kaitlyn LaForge-MacKenzie (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Francesca Felicia Operto; Costanza Scaffidi Abbate; Francesco Tommaso Piscitelli (et al.)
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