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AUTHOR(S) Michael R. Sherby; Tyler J. Walsh; Albert M. Lai (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Julia Dabravolskaj; Mohammed K. A. Khan; Paul J. Veugelers (et al.)
Children’s mental health and wellbeing declined during the first COVID-19 lockdown (Spring 2020), particularly among those from disadvantaged settings. This study compared mental health and wellbeing of school-aged children observed pre-pandemic in 2018 and after the first lockdown was lifted and schools reopened in Fall 2020. In 2018, it surveyed 476 grade 4–6 students (9–12 years old) from 11 schools in socioeconomically disadvantaged communities in Northern Canada that participate in a school-based health promotion program targeting healthy lifestyle behaviours and mental wellbeing. In November-December 2020, we surveyed 467 grade 4–6 students in the same schools. The 12 questions in the mental health and wellbeing domain were grouped based on correlation and examined using multivariable logistic regression.
AUTHOR(S) Stefanie Weinert; Anja Thronicke; Maximilian Hinse (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Kevin Lanza; Casey P. Durand; Melody Alcazar (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Nicole Zviedrite; Jeffrey D. Hodis; Ferdous Jahan (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Khadka Bahadur Pal; Buddha Bahadur Basnet; Ramesh Raj Pant (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Nicolas Reuge; Robert Jenkins; Matt Brossard (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Alejandra Jáuregui; Gabriela Argumedo; Catalina Medina (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Diane Seguin; Elizabeth Kuenzel; J Bruce Morton (et al.)
During the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of children abruptly moved to online schooling, which required high levels of parental involvement. Family routines were disrupted, potentially increasing parental stress, and may be reflected in greater media screen time use in children. To determine whether (1) parenting styles and (2) parenting stress were associated with children's screen time use during the pandemic compared to the pre-pandemic period.
AUTHOR(S) Minh Hieu Nguyen; Dorina Pojani; Thanh Chuong Nguyen (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Xiao Zhang
AUTHOR(S) Ming-Te Wang; Daphne A. Henry; Juan Del Toro (et al.)
COVID-19 has led to soaring unemployment rates and the widespread adoption of working-from-home (WFH) arrangements that have disrupted family relationships and adolescent psychological well-being. This longitudinal study investigated how parental employment status (i.e., job loss and WFH) influenced adolescents' daily affect indirectly through family functioning (i.e., parent-adolescent conflict and parental warmth) and whether these links varied by family's socioeconomic status. Daily-diary approaches were used to collect dyadic parent-adolescent data from a nationwide American sample (6,524 daily assessments from 447 parent-adolescent dyads; 45% black, 36% white, 10% Latinx, 7% Asian American, 2% Native American) over the course of 15 consecutive days at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
AUTHOR(S) Jessie Pinchoff; Elizabeth Layard Friesen; Beth Kangwana (et al.)
Adolescent mental health has been under-researched, particularly in Africa. COVID-19-related household economic stress and school closures will likely have adverse effects. We investigate the relationship among adolescent mental health, adult income loss, and household dynamics during the pandemic in Kenya. A cross-sectional mobile phone-based survey was conducted with one adult and adolescent (age 10–19 years) pair from a sample of households identified through previous cohort studies in three urban Kenyan counties (Nairobi, Kilifi, Kisumu). Survey questions covered education, physical and mental health, and COVID-19-related impacts on job loss, food insecurity, and healthcare seeking. Logistic regression models were fit to explore relationships among adult income loss, household dynamics, food insecurity, and adult and adolescent depressive symptoms (defined as PHQ-2 score ≤2).
AUTHOR(S) Matt Hawrilenko; Emily Kroshus; Pooja Tandon (et al.)
In-person schooling has been disrupted for most school-aged youth during the COVID-19 pandemic, with low-income, Black, and Hispanic populations most likely to receive fully remote instruction. Disruptions to in-person schooling may have negatively and inequitably affected children’s mental health. This study aims to estimate the association between school closures and child mental health outcomes and how it varies across sociodemographic factors.
AUTHOR(S) Linda M. Richter; Jere R. Behrman; Pia Britto (et al.)
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