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ReviewJornal de pediatria

Social and environmental effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on children.

Thiago Wendt Viola, Magda Lahorgue Nunes

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Review in Jornal de pediatria. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Thiago Wendt ViolaPontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Escola de Medicina, Laboratório de Neurociência Cognitiva do Desenvolvimento (DCNL) and Instituto do Cérebro (InsCer), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. Electronic address: thiago.wendt@pucrs.br.
Magda Lahorgue NunesPontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Escola de Medicina, Núcleo de Neurociências and Instituto do Cérebro (InsCer), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveThis study aimed to review the literature, summarizing the existing evidence on the effects of the pandemic on children, adolescents and parents, with an emphasis on the psychological, emotional, and sleep quality consequences. SOURCE OF DATA: Empirical studies identified in the following databases: MEDLINE, ISI Web of Knowledge/Web of Science, and preprint servers. SYNTHESIS OF DATA: The findings point to a wide range of consequences for children and adolescents resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, which mainly includes an increase in depressive mood symptoms. There is also an increase in anxiety symptoms, suicidal ideation, as well as potential delays in language and motor development resulting from deprivation of social interaction and the closing of schools. These effects are more severe due to previous neuropsychiatric conditions. For parents, there is an increase in anxiety, depressive and post-traumatic symptoms, which are more accentuated in those who suffered socioeconomic damage due to the pandemic. There was an important increase in situations of violence towards children by parents and caregivers during the pandemic. Also, changes in routine and fear of the pandemic have negatively impacted sleep quality, globally.

conclusionsIt is noteworthy that most studies published to date used a cross-sectional design and applied online screening questionnaires. The few studies with a longitudinal design suggest that these changes may have been transitory and more prevalent at the beginning of the pandemic.

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COVID-19PandemicsAdolescentAnxietyAnxiety DisordersChildCross-Sectional StudiesHumansAdolescenceChildhoodCOVID-19Mental healthSleep

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PMID34571018
PMCPMC8463108

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