ArticleDiscover mental health2025
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on long-term trends in youth depression and anxiety.
Article in Discover mental health, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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- Therapist-Guided Forest Therapy in Adolescents: Operational Feasibility and Anxiety-Symptom Signals from a Two-Classroom Quasi-Experimental Pilot Study.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Young minds in distress: Exploring the global rise in youth mental health diagnoses.Molecular psychiatry · 2026Review
- Trust-driven healthy engagement with conversational AI for mental health support in young adults: a mixed methods study.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Usage Trends of Student Counseling Rooms at Juntendo University's Hongo and Ochanomizu Campuses and at Other Universities in Japan: A Perspective Review.Juntendo medical journal · 2026Article
- Exposing the loci of bias: a taxonomical exploration of sources of bias in population mental health research.Population health metrics · 2025Review
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Abstract
Adolescent depression and anxiety have been rising in recent decades. Although reviews point at deterioration of youth mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic, how this relates to pre-pandemic trends is unclear. This narrative review examines whether the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the long-term development of depression and anxiety among adolescents. A systematic search in PubMed/Medline, PsycINFO, and Embase identified longitudinal or repeated cross-sectional studies using random sampling among youth (11–25 years). Out of 4,761 articles, nine met inclusion criteria. Most studies (7 out of 9) reported rising anxiety and/or depression rates pre-pandemic. During the pandemic, two trends emerged: five studies observed an amplification of pre-existing increases, while four reported a continuation of prior trends, none pointing at improvement. The majority of studies support the hypothesis that COVID-19 exacerbated existing increases in anxiety and depression among adolescents and young adults. Additional longitudinal studies with randomized, general population samples are needed to determine post-pandemic developments.
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