Lifestyle News | Study Suggests Strategies to Support Kids' Mental Health During Pandemic
Get latest articles and stories on Lifestyle at LatestLY. A new study has suggested several simple, practical steps that families can take -- including reducing passive screen time and news consumption, having a structured daily schedule and getting enough sleep -- that can promote resilience against mental health problems in youth during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Washington [US], August 17 (ANI): A new study has suggested several simple, practical steps that families can take -- including reducing passive screen time and news consumption, having a structured daily schedule and getting enough sleep -- that can promote resilience against mental health problems in youth during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The findings of the study were published in the open-access journal 'PLOS ONE' by Maya Rosen of Harvard University, US, and colleagues.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has introduced unprecedented change into the lives of children and adolescents.
Many of these disruptions, coupled with pandemic-related stressors, are likely to increase the risk for depression, anxiety and behavioural problems in youth.
In the new study, researchers recruited participants from two ongoing longitudinal studies of children and adolescents in the greater Seattle area.
224 youth and their caregivers completed an initial questionnaire assessing social behaviours, psychopathology and pandemic-related stressors in April and May 2020; 184 of these youth and their caregivers completed a similar battery of assessments six months later, in November 2020 through January 2021.
Since data on each youth was available from prior to the pandemic, results at each time point could be controlled for pre-pandemic symptoms.
The youth ranged in age from 7 to 15 years old, were 47.8 per cent female, and their racial and ethnic background reflected the Seattle area, with 66 per cent of participants White, 11 per cent Black, 11 per cent Asian and 8 per cent Hispanic or Latino.
The number of pandemic-related stressors was strongly associated with increases in both internalising (b=0.345, p
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