Young People's Mental Health Changes, Risk, and Resilience During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

As young people's mental health difficulties increase, understanding risk and resilience factors under challenging circumstances becomes critical.

Objective

To explore the outcomes of the COVID-19 pandemic on secondary school students' mental health difficulties, as well as the associations with individual, family, friendship, and school characteristics.

Design, setting, and participants

For this cohort study, follow-up data from the My Resilience in Adolescence (MYRIAD) cluster randomized clinical trial were collected across 2 representative UK cohorts. Mainstream UK secondary schools with a strategy and structure to deliver social-emotional learning, with an appointed head teacher, and that were not rated "inadequate" in their latest official inspection w

SUBMITTER: Montero-Marin J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10514742 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature