Data Resource Profile: Mental Health of Children and Young People (MHCYP) Surveys

Ford, Tamsin; Vizard, Tim; Sadler, Katharine; McManus, Sally; Goodman, Anna; Merad, Salah; Tejerina-Arreal, María; Collinson, Dan

doi:10.1093/ije/dyz259

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“…Likewise, a representative community sample in the United Kingdom reported higher levels of anxiety and trauma symptoms during the COVID-19 period as compared to previous population studies (Shevlin et al, 2020). Similar results were also found in the US, India, and many other countries (Ford et al, 2020;Holmes et al, 2020;Othman, 2020;Roy et al, 2020).…”

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Perceived Social Support Protects Lonely People Against COVID-19 Anxiety: A Three-Wave Longitudinal Study in China

Luo

et al. 2020

Front. Psychol.

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The isolation necessary to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) can give rise to anxiety, especially for lonely people who often feel upset without others' company. Although isolated from others, people can still receive support from others, which might lower their COVID-19 anxiety. To examine the relationship between loneliness, perceived social support, and anxiety, we measured 222 Chinese participants' (54.50% female, M age = 31.53, SD = 8.17) trait loneliness, chronic anxiety before the outbreak, COVID-19 anxiety at the peak and decline stages of COVID-19, and their perceived social support across the three time points. The results showed that people's perceived social support dramatically increased from the pre-pandemic to the peak COVID-19 stage, and remained stable during the decline of COVID-19 stage. In contrast, COVID-19 anxiety decreased from the peak to the decline stage. Further, perceived social support consistently moderated the relationship between loneliness with both chronic anxiety and COVID-19 anxiety. The current study provides initial evidence that perceived social support provides protection for lonely people in daily life as well as during unexpected disasters, which will contribute to finding ways to alleviate lonely people's anxiety during this global health crisis.

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Perceived Social Support Protects Lonely People Against COVID-19 Anxiety: A Three-Wave Longitudinal Study in China

Luo

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“…The pandemic is occurring against the backdrop of increased prevalence of mental health issues in the UK in recent years in some groups. 1,2 Furthermore, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus that causes COVID-19, might infect the brain or trigger immune responses that have additional adverse effects on brain function and mental health in patients with COVID- 19.…”

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Multidisciplinary research priorities for the COVID-19 pandemic: a call for action for mental health science

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O’Connor

Perry

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The Lancet Psychiatry

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The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is having a profound effect on all aspects of society, including mental health and physical health. We explore the psychological, social, and neuroscientific effects of COVID-19 and set out the immediate priorities and longer-term strategies for mental health science research. These priorities were informed by surveys of the public and an expert panel convened by the UK Academy of Medical Sciences and the mental health research charity, MQ: Transforming Mental Health, in the first weeks of the pandemic in the UK in March, 2020. We urge UK research funding agencies to work with researchers, people with lived experience, and others to establish a high level coordination group to ensure that these research priorities are addressed, and to allow new ones to be identified over time. The need to maintain high-quality research standards is imperative. International collaboration and a global perspective will be beneficial. An immediate priority is collecting high-quality data on the mental health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic across the whole population and vulnerable groups, and on brain function, cognition, and mental health of patients with COVID-19. There is an urgent need for research to address how mental health consequences for vulnerable groups can be mitigated under pandemic conditions, and on the impact of repeated media consumption and health messaging around COVID-19. Discovery, evaluation, and refinement of mechanistically driven interventions to address the psychological, social, and neuroscientific aspects of the pandemic are required. Rising to this challenge will require integration across disciplines and sectors, and should be done together with people with lived experience. New funding will be required to meet these priorities, and it can be efficiently leveraged by the UK's world-leading infrastructure. This Position Paper provides a strategy that may be both adapted for, and integrated with, research efforts in other countries.

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“…With a nationwide school closure, the emergency home schooling plan has been implemented and online courses were offered to children in a well-organized manner by schools and teachers. Although these measures ensured that school learning was not largely disrupted, prolonged school closure and home quarantine might have negative impacts on children's mental health (Brazendale et al 2017;Brooks et al 2020), as previous work suggested that children experienced anxiety and depression when facing flexible and rapidly changing situation (Dalton 2020;Tamsin et al 2020). Indeed, a recent study showed that children suffered greater psychological impact of the outbreak and experienced psychological crisis, which result in a variety of psychological problems such as anxiety and depression (Wang et al 2020).…”

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Anxiety, depression and PTSD among children and their parent during 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in China

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Home quarantine may lead to families developing a variety of psychological distress. The purpose of this study was to examine the psychological status of children and their parent during 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in China. Data were collected from children ( n = 1360) and their parent ( n = 1360) in China using online survey during February 2020. Demographic information, media exposure, and psychological status including anxiety, depression and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms were assessed using self-report measures. The results indicated that, for children, 1.84% experienced moderate anxiety, 2.22% experienced depression and 3.16% met the diagnostic criteria for PTSD; for parent, 1.18%, 0.01% and 3.60% experienced moderate anxiety, severe depression, and moderate depression, respectively, and 3.53% met the diagnostic criteria for PTSD. Moreover, excessive media exposure ( β = −0.08 ~ 0.13, p s < 0.05) was a risk factor for anxiety and PTSD for children, a positive factor against anxiety and depression for parent. Being a mother ( β = 0.07 ~ 0.21, p s < 0.01), being younger ( β = −0.09 ~ −0.07, p s < 0.05), lower levels of educational attainment ( β = −0.17 ~ −0.08, p s < 0.01) and family monthly income ( β = −0.17 ~ −0.11, p s < 0.05) were risk factors for anxiety, depression and PTSD for parent. Findings suggested that children and their parent in non-severe area didn’t suffer major psychological distress during the outbreak. Factors associated with lower levels of mental health problems were identified to inform the use of psychological interventions to improve the mental health of vulnerable groups during the pandemic.

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Data Resource Profile: Mental Health of Children and Young People (MHCYP) Surveys

Cited by 44 publications

References 23 publications

Perceived Social Support Protects Lonely People Against COVID-19 Anxiety: A Three-Wave Longitudinal Study in China

Perceived Social Support Protects Lonely People Against COVID-19 Anxiety: A Three-Wave Longitudinal Study in China

Multidisciplinary research priorities for the COVID-19 pandemic: a call for action for mental health science

Anxiety, depression and PTSD among children and their parent during 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in China

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