ArticleBrain sciences2022
Cognitive Difficulties, Psychological Symptoms, and Long Lasting Somatic Complaints in Adolescents with Previous SARS-CoV-2 Infection: A Telehealth Cross-Sectional Pilot Study.
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- The global prevalence of depression, anxiety, and sleep disorder among patients coping with Post COVID-19 syndrome (long COVID): a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC psychiatry · 2024Pooled it
- A Systematic Review of Persistent Clinical Features After SARS-CoV-2 in the Pediatric Population.Pediatrics · 2023Pooled it
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- Management of long COVID-19 in children and adolescents: from diagnosis to therapeutically approaches.Annals of medicine · 2026Review
- Association between COVID-19 diagnosis and severe mental health symptoms in adolescents in southern Brazil.Revista paulista de pediatria : orgao oficial da Sociedade de Pediatria de Sao Paulo · 2026Article
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- Utility of teleneuropsychology services among pediatric patients with long COVID.The Clinical neuropsychologist · 2025Article
- First episode of psychiatric and neuropsychiatric disease among patients infected with COVID-19: A scoping review.PCN reports : psychiatry and clinical neurosciences · 2025Review
- The neuropsychological impacts of coronavirus disease 2019 in nonhospitalized patients with long coronavirus disease and brain fog.Journal of the Chinese Medical Association : JCMA · 2025Article
- Neuropsychological functioning of pediatric patients with long COVID.The Clinical neuropsychologist · 2024Article
- Cognitive disengagement syndrome in pediatric patients with long COVID: associations with mood, anxiety, and functional impairment.Child neuropsychology : a journal on normal and abnormal development in childhood and adolescence · 2024Article
- Postacute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 in Children.Pediatrics · 2024Review
- Chronic Symptomatology Among Infants, Children, and Adolescents Within 12 Months After SARS-CoV-2 Infection.Global pediatric health · 2024Article
- Long COVID in Children: A Multidisciplinary Review.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
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Abstract
backgroundFew studies have evaluated cognitive functioning and mental health in children and adolescents who contracted the SARS-CoV-2 infection. We investigated the prevalence and association of neuropsychological difficulties, psychological symptoms, and self-reported long-COVID complaints in a sample of adolescents.
methodsThirty-one adolescents infected by COVID-19 within 3-6 months prior to the assessment were included. Neuropsychological difficulties, psychological symptoms, and self-reported long-COVID complaints were evaluated using a checklist and a battery of multiple standardized measures, using a telehealth procedure. Symptoms during the infection were also detected.
resultsWe included 31 adolescents (23 girls, 8 boys; mean age 14.1, SD = 2). We found borderline scores in 32.3% and 45.2% of our sample for phonemic and category fluency, respectively. A high percentage of participants showed symptoms of depression (80.6%) and anxiety (61.3%). Fifty-eight percent reported at least one long-COVID symptom. The most common symptoms were headache and attention problems (58%). Subjects presenting numbness/weakness, fatigue, brain fog, or attention problems had higher scores in depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress symptoms (
conclusionThis is a pilot study limited by the lack of control group. However, we found that cognitive, psychological, and physical symptoms were very common among adolescents recovered from COVID-19.
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