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Young people's mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic
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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, 75-80 especially those living with social and economic disadvantage.”
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“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).”
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Metadata
- 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)
- PMC
- PMC9765398
- OpenAlex
- W3175176639
- Cited by
- 233
- References
- 5
- Citations by year
- 2026: 11 · 2025: 21 · 2024: 42 · 2023: 52 · 2022: 82 · 2021: 24
- FWCI
- 34.10
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- 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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