Longitudinal Changes in Youth Mental Health From Before to During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Robust longitudinal studies of within-child changes in mental health associated with the COVID-19 pandemic are lacking, as are studies examining sources of heterogeneity in such changes.

Objective

To investigate within-child changes, overall and between subgroups, in youth mental health from prepandemic to midpandemic.

Design, setting, and participants

This cohort study used longitudinal prepandemic and midpandemic data from the Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program, collected between January 1, 2015, and March 12, 2020 (prepandemic), and between March 13, 2020, and August 31, 2022 (midpandemic). Data were analyzed between December 1, 2022, and June 1, 2024. The sample included 9 US-based observational longitudinal pediatric ECHO

SUBMITTER: Blackwell CK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11856357 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature