Lockdown Impact on Stress, Coping Strategies, and Substance Use in Teenagers.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the French government took many measures, the most notable of which was a national lockdown on 17 March 2020. Its effects have been widely studied, but to our knowledge, no study has sought to determine how adolescents have adapted to cope with this situation. The present study set out to explore teenagers' stress levels, coping strategies, and substance use during this period.

Methods

This paper is a cross-sectional study that rides on an existing prevention program interviewed 348 French middle school students (209 girls and 139 boys) in grade 8 (M _age = 13.45; SDage = 0.54) using an online questionnaire between March 17 and May 11, 2020 (COVID-19 lockdown). The study examined the teenagers' perceived stres

SUBMITTER: Bourduge C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8813749 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature