Yale Institute for Global Health, Yale University, 1 Church St., New Haven, CT, 06510, USA.
Department of Internal Medicine, Infectious Disease, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2023 Jun;54(3):913-925. doi: 10.1007/s10578-021-01297-1. Epub 2022 Jan 11.
The COVID-19 pandemic led to a worldwide lockdown and school closures, which have placed a substantial mental health burden on children and college students. Through a systematic search of the literature on PubMed and Collabovid of studies published January 2020-July 2021, our findings of five studies on children and 16 studies on college students found that both groups reported feeling more anxious, depressed, fatigued, and distressed than prior to the pandemic. Several risk factors such as living in rural areas, low family socioeconomic status, and being a family member or friend to a healthcare worker were strongly associated with worse mental health outcomes. As schools and researchers discuss future strategies on how to combine on-site teaching with online courses, our results indicate the importance of considering social contacts in students' mental health to support students at higher risk of social isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic.
新冠疫情导致全球范围的封锁和学校关闭，这给儿童和大学生带来了沉重的心理健康负担。通过对 PubMed 和 Collabovid 上 2020 年 1 月至 2021 年 7 月发表的文献进行系统检索，我们发现了五篇关于儿童的研究和 16 篇关于大学生的研究，这两组人都报告说，他们的焦虑、抑郁、疲劳和苦恼感比疫情前更强烈。一些风险因素，如居住在农村地区、家庭社会经济地位低、是医护人员的家庭成员或朋友，与更差的心理健康结果密切相关。随着学校和研究人员讨论未来如何将现场教学与在线课程相结合的策略，我们的研究结果表明，考虑学生社交接触对其心理健康的重要性，对于支持在新冠疫情期间更易遭受社交孤立的学生至关重要。
