학술논문
Longitudinal Covid-19 effects on child mental health: vulnerability and age dependent trajectories
Document Type
article
Source
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, Vol 17, Iss 1, Pp 1-11 (2023)
Subject
Language
English
ISSN
1753-2000
Abstract
Abstract Background Few longitudinal studies have investigated the extended long-term impact of the Covid-19 pandemic for children’s and adolescents’ mental health, and a lack of uniform findings suggest heterogeneity in the impact of the pandemic. Methods This study investigated child and adolescent mental health symptoms across four occasions (pre-pandemic, initial lockdown, second lockdown, and society post reopening) using data from the Dynamics of Family Conflict study. Child and adolescent depressive vulnerability, age, and sex were explored as trajectory moderators. Children and adolescents (N = 381, M age = 13.65, SD = 1.74) self-reported their anxiety, depression, and externalizing symptoms. Mixed effects analyses were performed to investigate trajectories across measurement occasions and interaction terms between occasion and moderator variables were included to better understand the heterogeneity in the impact of the pandemic. Results Children and adolescents reported increases in anxiety symptoms at the second lockdown (t(523) = −3.66, p