ArticleDisaster medicine and public health preparedness2023
Pandemic Isolation and Mental Health Among Children.
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- COVID-19 stress, aggressiveness, and deviant behaviour: a mediation analysis of youth in the pandemic era.Australian journal of psychology · 2026Article
- Completing the Disaster Cycle for Children: Introducing the Pediatric After-Action Report.Disaster medicine and public health preparedness · 2025Article
- Elementary students' social, emotional, and cognitive development during the COVID- 19 pandemic in North America: A scoping review.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
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- Social-emotional learning program: a community-based case-controlled study.Academia mental health & well-being · 2024Article
- Digitally Enabled Peer Support Intervention to Address Loneliness and Mental Health: Prospective Cohort Analysis.JMIR formative research · 2023Article
- The CLoCk study: A retrospective exploration of loneliness in children and young people during the COVID-19 pandemic, in England.PloS one · 2023Article
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Abstract
objectiveMental health issues increased during the COVID - 19 pandemic, especially among children. Our past research efforts found that surveillance data can address a variety of health concerns; that personal psychological awareness impacted ability to cope, and mental health outcomes were improved when survivors were triaged to mental health countermeasures. To build upon our public health efforts, we wanted to see if increased screen time due to remote learning caused by the pandemic influenced school aged children's mental health.
methodsWith the hypothesis that excessive time spent isolated during remote learning increased the amount of mental health events in children, we conducted a public health surveillance project on actual diagnoses rather than just symptoms, controlling for historical mental health and emotional disorders.
resultsThe entire cohort of children aged 6 to 17 years were studied over time before and during the pandemic for their medically diagnosed mental health and emotional outcomes by the amount of pandemic induced social isolation.
conclusionsAfter controlling for historical diagnoses and the rate of COVID - 19, the effect of pandemic - induced social isolation had a linear increase on the amount of anxiety, resulting in a 4-fold increase in pandemic social isolation - induced anxiety.
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