Adolescent Depressive Symptom Trajectories From Before to After the COVID-19 Pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Adolescent depression rates increased during the COVID-19 pandemic globally. Data on risk and resilience factors can inform prevention and intervention strategies during a major adversity.

Objective

To characterize depression symptom trajectories from before, during, and after the lockdown stages of the pandemic and to identify prospective risk and resilience factors.

Design, setting, and participants

This cohort study followed participants from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study ascertained through 21 sites across the US from before March 2020 to February 2022. The design and hypotheses were preregistered in March 2024. Analyses were conducted from April to November 2024.

Exposures

Prepandemic risk and resilience factors spanning devel

SUBMITTER: Gatavins MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12670201 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature