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AUTHOR(S) Ran D. Goldman; Jeffrey N. Bone; Renana Gelernterd (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Kendra Nelson Ferguson; Stephanie E. Coen; Danielle Tobin (et al.)
Qualitative research is lacking on the mental well-being of adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim of this study was to explore the feelings and emotions adolescents experienced during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic and the coping strategies they identified and employed to manage those emotions. Participants living in Canada aged 13–19 years were recruited through social media platforms and youth-serving organizations. Qualitative data were gathered from 2 open-ended questions included in a youth-informed cross-sectional online survey: “What feelings and emotions have you experienced around the pandemic?” and “What coping strategies have you used during the pandemic?” Data were collected from June 2020 to September 2020. A summative content analysis was undertaken to analyze survey responses inductively.
AUTHOR(S) Kimberly C. Thomson; Emily Jenkins; Randip Gill (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Shannon L. Stewart; Aadhiya S. Vasudeva; Jocelyn N. Van Dyke (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Jala Rizeq; Daphne J. Korczak; Katherine Tombeau Cost (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Britt McKinnon; Caroline Quach; Ève Dubé (et al.)
The success of current and prospective COVID-19 vaccine campaigns for children and adolescents will in part depend on the willingness of parents to accept vaccination. This study examined social determinants of parental COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and uptake for children and adolescents. We used cross-sectional data from an ongoing COVID-19 cohort study in Montreal, Canada and included all parents of 2 to 18-year-olds who completed an online questionnaire between May 18 and June 26, 2021 (n = 809). We calculated child age-adjusted prevalence estimates of vaccine acceptance by parental education, race/ethnicity, birthplace, household income, and neighbourhood, and used multinomial logistic regression to estimate adjusted prevalence differences (aPD) and ratios (aPR). Social determinants of vaccine uptake were examined for the vaccine-eligible sample of 12 to 18 year-olds (n = 306).
AUTHOR(S) Alexa Martin-Storey; Melanie Dirks; Brett Holfeld (et al.)
Adolescents typically spend decreasing amounts of time with family members, but the COVID-19 pandemic changed this pattern for many youth. The objective of the current study was to better understand adolescents' perceived change in family relationship quality, and how these perceptions were related to psychosocial functioning during the COVID-19 pandemic, accounting for more traditional measures of family relationship quality. Understanding how adolescents perceived change in relationship quality with family members during the pandemic offers novel insight into adolescents’ relationships with their families and psychosocial functioning during this period. A sample of Canadian adolescents (N = 605, ages 14 to 18, 53% girls), was employed to examine patterns of adolescents’ perceived change in relationship quality with parents and siblings since the start of the pandemic, accounting for relationship quality, pandemic-related characteristics, and demographic variables.
AUTHOR(S) Isabella Romano; Karen A. Patte; Margaret de Groh (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Julia Smith
AUTHOR(S) Kaitlyn Howden; Adam P. Yan; Camille Glidden (et al.)
Adolescents and young adults (AYAs) diagnosed with cancer are at an increased risk of experiencing social isolation and loneliness secondary to their cancer and its treatment. The physical distancing measures implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic may have further increased loneliness among this group. This study examined the prevalence of loneliness and factors associated with loneliness among AYAs with cancer during this pandemic. A self-administered, online, cross-sectional survey of Canadian AYAs diagnosed with cancer between 15 and 39 was conducted between January and February 2021. Loneliness was measured using the 3-item UCLA Loneliness Scale. Factors associated with higher levels of loneliness were identified using multiple logistic regression.
AUTHOR(S) Brae Anne McArthur; Sheri Madigan; Daphne J. Korczak
AUTHOR(S) Katerina Maximova; Mohammad KA. Khan; Julia Dabravolskaj (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Alène Toulany; Paul Kurdy; Astrid Guttmann (et al.)
Anecdotal reports suggest a significant increase in acute presentations of eating disorders among children and adolescents. This study aimed to compare the rates of emergency department visits and hospitalizations for pediatric eating disorders before and during the first 10 months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Using linked health administrative databases, it conducted a population-based repeated cross-sectional study of emergency department visits and hospitalizations for eating disorders among all children and adolescents aged 3–17 years, residing in Ontario, Canada.
AUTHOR(S) Michelle S. Zepeda; Stephanie Deighton; Veronika Markova (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Katerina Rnic; Ellen Jopling; Alison Tracy (et al.)
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