Emotions and behaviours of child and adolescent psychiatric patients during the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Previous pandemics have had negative effects on mental health, but there are few data on children and adolescents who were receiving ongoing psychiatric treatment.

Aims

To study changes in emotions and clinical state, and their predictors, during the COVID-19 pandemic in France.

Method

We administered (by interview) the baseline Youth Self-Report version of the CoRonavIruS Health Impact Survey v0.3 (CRISIS, French translation) to 123 adolescent patients and the Parent/Caregiver version to evaluate 99 child patients before and during the first 'lockdown'. For 139 of these patients who received ongoing treatment in our centre, treating physicians retrospectively completed longitudinal global ratings for five time periods, masked to CRISIS ratings.

Results<

SUBMITTER: Laurent-Levinson C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10897707 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature