Adolescents experienced an increase in depression and anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic compared with before the worldwide healthcare crisis, with females from higher income families having the most marked increased.
Results of the systematic review and meta-analysis highlight"a need for government to develop urgent and strategic plans to address the mental health of youth and ensure the provision of accessible and equitable resources to support this," lead author Sheri Madigan, PhD, told"We need to urge decision-makers to earmark funding for child and adolescent research and clinical services," continued Madigan, a professor of psychology at the University of Calgary in Canada, adding...
In total, 51% of studies reported data from North America, 24% from Europe, 19% from Asia, 4% from Australia, and 2% from Israel. The analysis also found that the increase in depression was seen mostly in females , with only a slight increase in males. Again, this is consistent with previous research, and may be explained by a number of things, said Madigan.
"It would have been useful to present findings arrayed by date of data collection rather than date of publication, and to have examined school closure and/or lockdown status for each study’s population as another potential moderating factor," he said.
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