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Young people's mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic

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Creswell, Cathy, Shum, Adrienne, Pearcey, Samantha, Skripkauskaite, Simona, Patalay, Praveetha, Waite, Polly·2021·The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health

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  • Young people as a cohort have had a marked increase in distress and disproportionately poorer mental health outcomes since the COVID-19 pandemic, especially those living with social and economic disadvantage.

    “young people as a cohort have had a marked increase in distress and disproportionately poorer mental health outcomes since the COVID-19 pandemic, 75-80 especially those living with social and economic disadvantage.”

    From The Lancet Psychiatry Commission on youth mental health (2024) · cites this paper as [80]

    The paper’s main text reports increases in some child mental-health symptoms during periods of peak restrictions and persistently high symptoms among children in low-income families (page numbers not provided). But it also reports fairly stable adolescent self-reported symptoms and says its Co-SPACE data cannot establish how the pandemic changed prevalence relative to before the pandemic. It therefore does not support a marked increase in distress across young people as a cohort. (LLM, conf=0.88)

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  • Parent-directed interventions are cost-effective in reducing child anxiety and related behaviours.

    “A priori decision was made to focus on parent-directed interventions based on recent research demonstrating their cost-effective nature in reducing child anxiety and related behaviours (Creswell et al., 2021).”

    From Intervention for school anxiety and absenteeism in children (ISAAC): Co-designing a brief parent-focused intervention for emotionally-based school avoidance. (2024) · cites this paper as Creswell et al., 2021

    The paper’s main section reports changes in children’s mental-health symptoms during pandemic restrictions and discusses parental stress. Searches for parent-directed interventions, cost-effectiveness, and reductions in child anxiety found no passage addressing whether such interventions work or are cost-effective. (LLM, conf=0.75)

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Authors
Creswell, C., Shum, A., Pearcey, S., Skripkauskaite, S., Patalay, P., & Waite, P.
Affiliations
  • University of Oxford (GB)
  • MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing (GB)
Corresponding author
Creswell, Cathy
Venue
The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2021-08
Volume
5
Issue
8
Pages
535-537
ISSN
2352-4642 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W3175176639
Cited by
233
References
5
Citations by year
2026: 11 · 2025: 21 · 2024: 42 · 2023: 52 · 2022: 82 · 2021: 24 · 2020: 1
FWCI
34.10
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • UKRI
  • NIHR
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
Keywords
youth mental health, COVID-19 pandemic, children and adolescents, lockdown, mental illness, longitudinal survey
MeSH terms
COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, Adolescent, Child, Child, Preschool, United Kingdom, Humans, Longitudinal Studies, Mental Health, Parents, Quarantine, Minors

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