Risk and protective factors related to changes in mental health among adolescents since COVID-19 in Hong Kong: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Most research has suggested that children and adolescents had poorer mental health than pre-COVID-19 pandemic status. There have been few investigations into factors associated with pre-peri pandemic differences in young people's mental health status. Our study aimed to investigate the association between sociodemographic factors, attitudes, and daily life experiences and these differences.

Methods

We used self-reported cross-sectional data from the Youth Sexuality Survey (YSS) by the Family Planning Association of Hong Kong, collected from secondary school students aged 10-16 between the fourth and fifth waves of the pandemic. The study outcome was pre-peri pandemic differences in mental health (better, unchanged, or poorer). Associations between the study outcom

SUBMITTER: Yeung CY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10258769 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature