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ArticleChild psychiatry and human development2025

Longitudinal Association Between Youth Multimorbidity and Psychological Distress: Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Mark A Ferro, Alene Toulany

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Article in Child psychiatry and human development, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Mark A FerroSchool of Public Health Sciences, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, ON, N2L 3G1, Canada. mark.ferro@uwaterloo.ca.
Alene ToulanyDivision of Adolescent Medicine, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada.
University of Toronto · CAUniversity of Waterloo · CA

Funding

CIHR PJT-148602
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This research examined longitudinal associations between youth physical-mental multimorbidity and psychological distress before and during the COVID-19 pandemic; assessed the contextual impact of the pandemic on these associations; and, investigated potential moderating factors. The Multimorbidity in Youth across the Life-course, an ongoing study of youth aged 2-16 years (mean 9.4; 46.9% female) with physical illness, was used as the sampling frame for this COVID-19 sub-study, in which 147 parent-youth dyads participated. Psychological distress was measured using the Kessler-6 (K6). Multimorbidity was associated with higher pre-pandemic, but not with intra-pandemic distress. Disability moderated pre-pandemic distress-multimorbidity was associated with higher K6 among youth with high disability, but not among youth with low disability. Age moderated intra-pandemic distress-multimorbidity was associated with higher K6 in older youth, but not among younger youth.

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COVID-19MultimorbidityPsychological DistressStress, PsychologicalAdolescentAge FactorsChildChild, PreschoolFemaleHumansLongitudinal StudiesMaleAdolescentChildChronic diseaseComorbidityMental healthPhysical illnessPsychiatric disorder

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PMID37358802
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