School of Psychiatry, Institute of Psychaitry, Psychology & Neuroscience, London, UK.
J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2021 Jan;62(1):1-4. doi: 10.1111/jcpp.13364.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic took hold in the first quarter of 2020, children and their families across the world have experienced extraordinary changes to the way they live their lives - creating enormous practical and psychological challenges for them at many levels. While some of these effects are directly linked to COVID-related morbidity and mortality, many are indirect - due rather to governmental public health responses designed to slow the spread of infection and minimise the numbers of deaths. These have often involved aggressive programmes of social distancing and quarantine, including extended periods of national social and economic lockdown, unprecedented in the modern age. Debates about the appropriateness of these measures have often referenced their potentially negative impact on people's mental health and well-being - impacts which both opponents and advocates appear to accept as being inevitable.
自 2020 年第一季度 COVID-19 大流行以来，全世界的儿童及其家庭的生活方式发生了巨大变化——在许多层面上给他们带来了巨大的实际和心理挑战。虽然其中一些影响直接与 COVID-19 相关的发病率和死亡率有关，但许多影响是间接的——而是由于政府为减缓感染传播和减少死亡人数而采取的公共卫生应对措施。这些措施通常包括严格的社交距离和隔离计划，包括延长国家社会和经济封锁期，这在现代是前所未有的。关于这些措施是否合适的争论经常提到它们对人们的心理健康和福祉可能产生的负面影响——反对者和支持者似乎都认为这些影响是不可避免的。
