Taylor Mischa, Dimitropoulos Gina, Scott Shannon D, Ben-David Shelly, Hilario Carla
University of British Columbia Okanagan Campus, Kelowna, Canada.
University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.
Glob Qual Nurs Res. 2024 Sep 2;11:23333936241273270. doi: 10.1177/23333936241273270. eCollection 2024 Jan-Dec.
Public health measures (PHMs) implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic introduced sudden changes to adolescents' everyday routines and required adolescents to repeatedly adapt their routines at a critical developmental stage. While meant to protect physical health, the PHMs destabilized mental health. Using a youth-engaged approach and interpretive description, this study explored adolescents' perspectives on their mental health in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic-related PHMs in Canada from March 2020 to the time of data collection in March 2022. Four Youth Research Collaborators contributed an adolescent lens to informing study activities, and a total of 33 high-school aged adolescents ages 14 to 19 completed individual interviews. Findings suggest an overarching concept of a "timeline" through which adolescents described their experiences. Most adolescents described their mental health as worsening during the initial lockdown, although some adolescents experienced positive mental health outcomes. Several adolescents felt their mental health had not recovered after the PHMs were fully lifted. This study contributes young Canadians' unique voices to the literature on the pandemic-related PHMs and adolescent mental health. It is essential that the impacts of the pandemic on adolescent mental health continue to be a focus of research and programming to better understand and address its ongoing effects.
在新冠疫情期间实施的公共卫生措施（PHMs）使青少年的日常活动突然发生变化，并要求他们在关键的发育阶段反复调整日常活动。虽然这些公共卫生措施旨在保护身体健康，但却破坏了心理健康。本研究采用青年参与的方法和解释性描述，探讨了2020年3月至2022年3月数据收集时，加拿大青少年对其心理健康与新冠疫情相关公共卫生措施之间关系的看法。四名青年研究合作者从青少年的视角为研究活动提供了信息，共有33名年龄在14至19岁的高中生完成了个人访谈。研究结果表明存在一个“时间线”的总体概念，青少年通过这个概念描述了他们的经历。大多数青少年表示，在最初的封锁期间他们的心理健康状况恶化，尽管一些青少年心理健康状况出现了积极结果。一些青少年觉得在公共卫生措施完全解除后，他们的心理健康并未恢复。本研究为有关疫情相关公共卫生措施和青少年心理健康的文献贡献了加拿大年轻人的独特声音。疫情对青少年心理健康的影响必须继续成为研究和规划的重点，以便更好地理解和应对其持续影响。
