Mental health considerations for children quarantined because of COVID-19
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Some children expressed lower affect because they could not play outdoors, meet friends, or engage in in-person school activities.
“Some children have expressed lower levels of affect for not being able to play outdoors, not meeting friends and not engaging in the in-person school activities (Lee, 2020; Liu et al., 2020; Zhai and Du, 2020).”
From Impact of COVID-19 and lockdown on mental health of children and adolescents: A narrative review with recommendations (2020) · cites this paper as Liu et al., 2020
The Comment section says quarantine might adversely affect children’s mental health and that companionship is important to their wellbeing. It does not report children expressing lower affect or link that response to being unable to play outdoors, meet friends, or attend school in person. (LLM, conf=0.78)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredLiu et al. (2020) found elevated PTSD and GAD rates among Chinese children and adolescents after the COVID-19 outbreak.
“For instance, Liu et al. (2020) found elevated PTSD and GAD rates among Chinese children and adolescents after the COVID-19 outbreak.”
From Intolerance of Uncertainty and Health-Related Anxiety in Youth amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: Understanding and Weathering the Continuing Storm (2022) · cites this paper as Liu et al., 2020
The Comment section reports that 30% of children isolated or quarantined during earlier pandemic diseases met clinical criteria for PTSD, citing Sprang and colleagues. It does not report PTSD rates among Chinese children after the COVID-19 outbreak or any GAD rates; it discusses those children’s potential mental-health risks instead. Page numbers are unavailable in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.86)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredQuarantine measures have psychological effects that cannot be ignored.
“Although quarantining measures are for the benefit of the community at large, its psychological effects cannot be ignored (Liu et al., 2020).”
From Impact of COVID-19 and lockdown on mental health of children and adolescents: A narrative review with recommendations (2020) · cites this paper as Liu et al., 2020
Separation from primary caregivers can make a child more vulnerable and threaten a child's mental health.
“It is found that separation from the primary caregivers can make a child more vulnerable and can pose a threat to a child's mental health (Cooper, 2020; Jiao et al., 2020; Liu et al., 2020).”
From Impact of COVID-19 and lockdown on mental health of children and adolescents: A narrative review with recommendations (2020) · cites this paper as Liu et al., 2020
Children have emotionally pent-up distress that may turn inward as emotional fear or outward as acting-out behaviour.
“Children have emotionally pent up feelings of distress which may turn inwards into emotional fear or outwards towards acting out behavior (Liu et al., 2020).”
From Impact of COVID-19 and lockdown on mental health of children and adolescents: A narrative review with recommendations (2020) · cites this paper as Liu et al., 2020
Adults and older children served as respondents in the cited studies.
“The adults and older children were the respondents of the study(Lee, 2020; Liu et al., 2020; Viner et al., 2020b; Wang et al., 2020).”
From Impact of COVID-19 and lockdown on mental health of children and adolescents: A narrative review with recommendations (2020) · cites this paper as Liu et al., 2020
The Comment section discusses children’s mental health during quarantine and proposes support measures, but does not identify respondents in a study. Searches for respondents, participants, and adults or older children as study subjects found no passage establishing the claimed respondent groups (page not available). (LLM, conf=0.75)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredIn that population, distress symptoms positively correlated with perceiving the virus as threatening or stigmatizing.
“Symptoms of distress within this population positively correlated with perceptions of the virus as threatening or stigmatizing.”
From Intolerance of Uncertainty and Health-Related Anxiety in Youth amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: Understanding and Weathering the Continuing Storm (2022) · cites this paper as Liu et al., 2020
The Comment section discusses possible mental-health effects of quarantine and separation on children, but does not report a correlation between distress symptoms and perceptions of the virus as threatening or stigmatizing. Searches for that correlation and for stigma and perceived threat found no passage addressing it. (LLM, conf=0.76)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredReports describe emotional and behavioral difficulties among children kept at home.
“Specifically, emotional and behavioral problems arising in children who have been or are still confined to their homes have been reported [14, 17, 21, 24, 29].”
From Online art therapy in elementary schools during COVID-19: results from a randomized cluster pilot and feasibility study and impact on mental health (2021) · cites this paper as [21]
Fewer social contacts, boredom, and family strain might all play a role in these difficulties.
“A lack of social interactions, boredom and family tensions may all contribute to the emergence of these problems [21].”
From Online art therapy in elementary schools during COVID-19: results from a randomized cluster pilot and feasibility study and impact on mental health (2021) · cites this paper as [21]
The drop in social contact during containment measures probably raised loneliness and may have raised psychological distress.
“This has led to a steep reduction in social contact which is likely to have increased experiences of loneliness and may have increased psychological distress (Barari et al., 2020; Serafini et al., 2020; Liu et al., 2020; Ellis et al., 2020).”
From Loneliness, social relationships, and mental health in adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic (2021) · cites this paper as Liu et al., 2020
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- Authors
- Liu, J. J., Bao, Y., Huang, X., Shi, J., & Lu, L.
- Affiliations
- Peking University (CN)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
- Venue
- The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2020-05
- Volume
- 4
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 347-349
- ISSN
- 2352-4642 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC7118598
- OpenAlex
- W3013545155
- Cited by
- 868
- References
- 7
- Citations by year
- 2026: 11 · 2025: 27 · 2024: 88 · 2023: 98 · 2022: 196 · 2021: 272 · 2020: 176
- FWCI
- 74.26
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Modeling and Simulation › COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Keywords
- COVID-19 pandemic, quarantine, children, child mental health, psychological distress, close contacts, China
- MeSH terms
- Betacoronavirus, COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, Child, China, Humans, Mental Health, Pneumonia, Viral, Quarantine, Coronavirus, Coronavirus Infections, Pandemics
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