Psychological impact during COVID-19 lockdown in children and adolescents with previous mental health disorders

Lopez-Serrano, Jara; Díaz-Bóveda, Rosalía; González-Vallespí, Laura; Santamarina-Pérez, Pilar; Bretones-Rodríguez, Antonia; Calvo, Rosa; Lera‐Miguel, Sara

doi:10.1016/j.rpsm.2021.04.002

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“…In accordance with recent studies, we also found a dramatic increase in electronic devices' usage in all age groups ( 14 , 15 , 23 , 26 ), which has been shown to pose a risk on mental health regardless of the pandemic. The use of Internet has undoubtedly facilitated to some extent the continuity of social and schooling activity during lockdown, especially during strict lockdown.…”

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confidence: 92%

“…Similar results have been recently described ( 14 , 17 , 19 , 20 ) and underline the need to consider how we communicate information to children and help them manage this information. Furthermore, it has been shown that anxiety and depressive symptoms and other negative outcomes were more likely in children whose parents reported higher levels of stress, depression or were unemployed ( 18 , 20 – 23 ), and that those were often more important among the youngest ones ( 20 ). Thus, supporting parents' mental health and providing them with accurate information, strategies and support to cope with lockdown is essential to protect their children's mental health ( 24 , 25 ).…”

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confidence: 99%

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How Did the COVID-19 Lockdown Affect Children and Adolescent's Well-Being: Spanish Parents, Children, and Adolescents Respond

Ajanovic

Garrido-Aguirre

Baró

et al. 2021

Front. Public Health

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Background: During the COVID-19 pandemic, lockdown strategies have been widely used to contain SARS-CoV-2 virus spread. Children and adolescents are especially vulnerable to suffering psychological effects as result of such measures. In Spain, children were enforced to a strict home lockdown for 42 days during the first wave. Here, we studied the effects of lockdown in children and adolescents through an online questionnaire.Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in Spain using an open online survey from July (after the lockdown resulting from the first pandemic wave) to November 2020 (second wave). We included families with children under 16 years-old living in Spain. Parents answered a survey regarding the lockdown effects on their children and were instructed to invite their children from 7 to 16 years-old (mandatory scholar age in Spain) to respond a specific set of questions. Answers were collected through an application programming interface system, and data analysis was performed using R.Results: We included 1,957 families who completed the questionnaires, covering a total of 3,347 children. The specific children's questionnaire was completed by 167 kids (7–11 years-old), and 100 adolescents (12–16 years-old). Children, in general, showed high resilience and capability to adapt to new situations. Sleeping problems were reported in more than half of the children (54%) and adolescents (59%), and these were strongly associated with less time doing sports and spending more than 5 h per day using electronic devices. Parents perceived their children to gain weight (41%), be more irritable and anxious (63%) and sadder (46%). Parents and children differed significantly when evaluating children's sleeping disturbances.Conclusions: Enforced lockdown measures and isolation can have a negative impact on children and adolescent's mental health and well-being. In future waves of the current pandemic, or in the light of potential epidemics of new emerging infections, lockdown measures targeting children, and adolescents should be reconsidered taking into account their infectiousness potential and their age-specific needs, especially to facilitate physical activity and to limit time spent on electronic devices.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 92%

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

How Did the COVID-19 Lockdown Affect Children and Adolescent's Well-Being: Spanish Parents, Children, and Adolescents Respond

Ajanovic

Garrido-Aguirre

Baró

et al. 2021

Front. Public Health

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“…Overall, we can conclude that the positive changes to a child’s life due to the first lockdown—the relationships among the family members, the time spent watching TV, and parental evaluation of the child’s mental health and the stress caused by COVID-19 restrictions—could play crucial role to the change in the mood state of the child. These results are aligned with the results of relevant studies found on the literature that incorporated pre-pandemic clinical samples or population-based cohorts of children at high risk for transition from subclinical to clinically significant levels of psychopathology [ 72 , 73 , 74 ]. Moreover, the finding that that most of the children and youths managed to maintain stable mood (63.04%: 469 out of 744) or even have positive mood change (14.25%: 106 out of 744) may be related to the concept of resilience.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 83%

An Explainable Machine Learning Approach for COVID-19’s Impact on Mood States of Children and Adolescents during the First Lockdown in Greece

Ntakolia

Priftis

Charakopoulou-Travlou

et al. 2022

Healthcare

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The global spread of COVID-19 led the World Health Organization to declare a pandemic on 11 March 2020. To decelerate this spread, countries have taken strict measures that have affected the lifestyles and economies. Various studies have focused on the identification of COVID-19’s impact on the mental health of children and adolescents via traditional statistical approaches. However, a machine learning methodology must be developed to explain the main factors that contribute to the changes in the mood state of children and adolescents during the first lockdown. Therefore, in this study an explainable machine learning pipeline is presented focusing on children and adolescents in Greece, where a strict lockdown was imposed. The target group consists of children and adolescents, recruited from children and adolescent mental health services, who present mental health problems diagnosed before the pandemic. The proposed methodology imposes: (i) data collection via questionnaires; (ii) a clustering process to identify the groups of subjects with amelioration, deterioration and stability to their mood state; (iii) a feature selection process to identify the most informative features that contribute to mood state prediction; (iv) a decision-making process based on an experimental evaluation among classifiers; (v) calibration of the best-performing model; and (vi) a post hoc interpretation of the features’ impact on the best-performing model. The results showed that a blend of heterogeneous features from almost all feature categories is necessary to increase our understanding regarding the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mood state of children and adolescents.

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“…The intervention, therefore, allows participation and involvement in group activities to emerge, and it is interesting that all the elements for the construction of a group spirit and mentality emerge in this training intervention, like common work objectives, division of the role and pleasure of the task [44,45]. External competition, internal conflict resolution, and finally, the group decision prevails as the final outcome of the triggered process.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Decision-Making Process and the Construction of Online Sociality through the Digital Storytelling Methodology

2021

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Digital storytelling (DST) is a teaching methodology (and tool) that is very widespread in different types of training: formal and informal, professional, and for adults. Presently, education is evolving and moving towards digital storytelling, starting from the models of Lambert and Olher. Today, although DST is usually used in the training that students receive for narrative learning, experimentation on the psychological and social consequences of this online teaching practice is still scarce. The literature acknowledges the widespread use of DST online, from psychology to communication and from marketing to training, providing Lambert’s and Olher’s models as references. Thus, the purpose of experimentation in this subject has been to try to mix these two models by selecting the phases of the model that focus most on creativity and narrative writing. The purpose of this study is to illustrate the experimentation conducted in the initial training of teachers to monitor the processes of negotiating content, making decisions and building a group atmosphere through the use of a narrative technique in an educational context. The sample was offered comprehension activities on narrative categories, creativity and autobiographical writing. The process in the group choice phase (negotiation) of the story was monitored through a questionnaire that includes three scales (the Melbourne Decision Making Questionnaire, Organisational Attitude, and Negotiations Self-Assessment Inventory). The study concluded that the standardised planning of activities that, to a greater degree of depth, promote participation and emotional involvement allows the creation of strong group thinking and affects the decision-making and negotiation processes of the activities being carried out by the participants.

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Psychological impact during COVID-19 lockdown in children and adolescents with previous mental health disorders

Cited by 35 publications

References 27 publications

How Did the COVID-19 Lockdown Affect Children and Adolescent's Well-Being: Spanish Parents, Children, and Adolescents Respond

How Did the COVID-19 Lockdown Affect Children and Adolescent's Well-Being: Spanish Parents, Children, and Adolescents Respond

An Explainable Machine Learning Approach for COVID-19’s Impact on Mood States of Children and Adolescents during the First Lockdown in Greece

The Decision-Making Process and the Construction of Online Sociality through the Digital Storytelling Methodology

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