'You're just there, alone in your room with your thoughts': a qualitative study about the psychosocial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic among young people living in the UK.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Adolescents and young adults have been greatly affected by quarantine measures during the COVID-19 pandemic, but little is understood about how restrictions have affected their well-being, mental health, and social life. We therefore aimed to learn more about how UK quarantine measures affected the social lives, mental health and well-being of adolescents and young adults.

Design

Qualitative interview study. The data were analysed using reflexive thematic analysis, with particular attention paid to contextual factors (such as age, gender, ethnicity and health status) when analysing each individual transcript.

Setting

Data collection took place remotely across the UK via audio or video call, between June 2020 and January 2021.

Participants

We conducte

SUBMITTER: McKinlay AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8829834 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature