Monthly correlates of longitudinal child mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic according to children and caregivers.

ABSTRACT: Multiple reviews identify the broad, pervasive initial impact of the global COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of children, who may be particularly vulnerable to long-term psychiatric sequelae of the ongoing pandemic. However, limited longitudinal research examines persistence of, or change in, children's distress or psychiatric symptomatology. From June 2020 through December 2021, we enrolled two cohorts of families of children aged 8-13 from Southwestern Ontario into a staggered baseline, longitudinal design that leveraged multi-informant report (N = 317 families). In each family, one child and one parent/guardian completed a baseline assessment, 6 monthly follow-up assessments, and one final follow-up assessment 9 months post-baseline. At each assessment, the child and parent/guardi

SUBMITTER: Rappaport LM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9734395 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature