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AUTHOR(S) Stefanie L. Sequeira; Jennifer S. Silk; Emily Hutchinson (et al.)
Adolescent depression is increasing during the COVID-19 pandemic, possibly related to dramatic social changes. Individual-level factors that contribute to social functioning, such as temperament and neural reactivity to social feedback, may confer risk for or resilience against depressive symptoms during the pandemic. Ninety-three girls (12–17 years) oversampled for high shy/fearful temperament were recruited from a longitudinal study for a follow-up COVID-19 study. During the parent study (2016–2018), participants completed a functional magnetic resonance imaging task eliciting neural activity to performance-related social feedback. Depressive symptoms were assessed during the parent study and COVID-19 follow-up (April–May 2020).
AUTHOR(S) Agnes Binagwaho; Joyeuse Senga
AUTHOR(S) Xiaoning Zhang; Dagmara Dimitriou; Elizabeth J. Halstead
Sleep is essential for optimal learning across the developmental pathways. This study aimed to (1) explore whether school start and end times and screen time influenced sleep disturbances in adolescents during the lockdown in China and (2) investigate if sleep disturbances at night and sleep-related impairment (daytime fatigue) influenced adolescents' academic performance and anxiety levels. Ninety-nine adolescents aged 15–17 years old were recruited from two public schools in Baishan City Jilin Province, China. An online questionnaire was distributed including questions on adolescents' demographics, screen time habits, academic performance, anxiety level, sleep disturbances, and sleep-related impairment.
AUTHOR(S) Viviana Stampini; Alice Monzani; Silvia Caristia (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Gregorio Serra; Lucia Lo Scalzo; Mario Giuffrè (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Hanmei Xu; Hang Zhang; Lijuan Huang (et al.)
The outbreak of Coronavirus Disease 2019(COVID-19) caused psychological stress in Chinese adults population. But we are unaware of whether the pandemic causes psychological stress on children. We used the Children’s Impact of Event Scale questionnaire (CRIES-13) to investigate the degree of Post-traumatic Stress (PTSD) symptoms caused by the pandemic in students selected from schools in Sichuan, Jiangsu, Henan, Yunnan, and Chongqing provinces of China.
AUTHOR(S) Julie Lounds Taylor; Florencia Pezzimenti; Meghan M. Burke (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Tracy R. G. Gladstone; Jennifer A. J. Schwartz; Patrick Pössel (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Aman Dule
AUTHOR(S) Tammy S. H. Lim; Mae Yue Tan; Ramkumar Aishworiya (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Bronwyn Myers; Claire van der Westhuizen; Megan Pool
AUTHOR(S) Julian Koenig; Elisabeth Kohls; Markus Moessner (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Anna Maria Werling; Susanne Walitza; Edna Grünblatt (et al.)
To investigate the consequences of COVID-19 lockdown on screen media use in children and adolescents with mental health problems, an online survey was conducted on leisure media use before, during and after the lockdown of spring 2020. Parents of patients (10-18 yrs) referred to child and adolescent psychiatry participated in an anonymous online survey, approximately six weeks after the first easing of lockdown measures. Parents rated the amount, the content and the psychological impact of their children's media use before, during and after the lockdown.
AUTHOR(S) Chiara Penengo; Chiara Colli; Marco Garzitto (et al.)
In the beginning of 2020, Italy was the first European country to face the COVID-19 outbreak. Restrictions imposed during the pandemic, social isolation, and the cancellation of medical appointments likely resulted in stress that may have affected pregnant women adversely. This paper aims to determine the psychometric validity of the Italian version of the Pandemic-Related Pregnancy Stress Scale (PREPS) in assessing COVID-19-related stress in pregnant women and to examine correlations between PREPS scales and symptoms of anxiety and depression.
AUTHOR(S) Elise Paul; Alex Kwong; Paul Moran (et al.)
Depression and self-harm are leading causes of disability in young people, but prospective data on how maternal depression and self-harm thoughts contribute to these outcomes, and how they may interact is lacking. The study sample consisted of 8,425 mothers and offspring from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children, an ongoing birth cohort study. Exposures were maternal self-harm ideation and depression measured using the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale, collected at eleven time points over the period 18 weeks’ gestation to 18 years post-partum. Outcomes were offspring past-year major depressive disorder and lifetime self-harm assessed at age 24.
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