Neurosciences Department, University of Padua, Padua, Italy.
Padua Neuroscience Center, University of Padua, Padua, Italy.
J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2022 Jan;63(1):122-125. doi: 10.1111/jcpp.13478. Epub 2021 Aug 2.
This editorial perspective focuses on the challenges of research on child and adolescent mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. Common limitations of published/ongoing studies are (i) being conducted in one or few countries, (ii) the survey being available in one or few languages, (iii) targeting selected samples (e.g., clinical populations and health workers) rather than the general population, (iv) only recruiting/reporting on non-representative samples, (v) focusing often on a restricted set of mental health outcomes, missing the broader picture of mental and physical health, quality of life and functioning, (vi) failing to use a longitudinal design and (vii) collecting only parental ratings or self-rated questionnaires from children and adolescents, but not both. We discuss how the Collaborative Outcomes Study on Health and Functioning during Infection Times (COH-FIT) was designed to address some of these challenges, also highlighting its limitations.
本社论观点聚焦于 COVID-19 大流行期间儿童和青少年心理健康研究面临的挑战。已发表/正在进行的研究的常见局限性包括：(i) 在一个或少数几个国家进行；(ii) 调查仅提供一种或少数几种语言版本；(iii) 针对特定样本（例如，临床人群和卫生工作者）而非一般人群；(iv) 仅招募/报告非代表性样本；(v) 重点关注一组有限的心理健康结果，忽略了更广泛的心理和身体健康、生活质量和功能图景；(vi) 未能采用纵向设计；以及 (vii) 仅从儿童和青少年那里收集父母评分或自我报告问卷，而不是两者都收集。我们讨论了如何设计协作感染期健康和功能研究（COH-FIT）来应对其中一些挑战，同时也强调了其局限性。
