Mostly worse, occasionally better: impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of Canadian children and adolescents

• Published in: European child & adolescent psychiatry Vol. 31; no. 4; pp. 671 - 684
• Main Authors: Cost, Katherine Tombeau, Crosbie, Jennifer, Anagnostou, Evdokia, Birken, Catherine S., Charach, Alice, Monga, Suneeta, Kelley, Elizabeth, Nicolson, Rob, Maguire, Jonathon L., Burton, Christie L., Schachar, Russell J., Arnold, Paul D., Korczak, Daphne J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.04.2022; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adolescents; Age differences; Age groups; Anxiety; Attention; Canada - epidemiology; Child; Child & adolescent mental health; Child & adolescent psychiatry; Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; Children; Coronaviruses; COVID-19; COVID-19 - epidemiology; Crises; Cross-Sectional Studies; Deterioration; Diagnosis; Female; Health status; Humans; Hyperactivity; Irritability; Male; Medical diagnosis; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Mental depression; Mental disorders; Mental Health; Mitigation; Obsession; Original Contribution; Pandemics; Psychiatry; Questionnaires; Social interaction; Social interactions; Social isolation; Stress; Teenagers; Canada; COVID-19; Neurodevelopmental disorders; Child and adolescent psychiatry

This large cross-sectional study examined the impact of COVID-19 emergency measures on child/adolescent mental health for children/adolescents with and without pre-existing psychiatric diagnoses. Using adapted measures from the CRISIS questionnaire, parents of children aged 6–18 ( N  = 1013; 56% mal...