Impact of COVID-19 on the mental health of children and young people: An umbrella review

Bevilacqua, Leonardo, Fox-Smith, Lana, Lewins, Amy, Jetha, Poonam, Sideri, Athena, Barton, Gil, Meiser-Stedman, Richard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0262-623X and Beazley, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8821-1213 (2023) Impact of COVID-19 on the mental health of children and young people: An umbrella review. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 77 (11). pp. 704-709. ISSN 0143-005X

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Abstract

Background Over the past 3 years, a multitude of studies have highlighted the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of children and young people (CYP). In this umbrella review, we synthesise global evidence on the impact of COVID-19 on the mental health of CYP from existing systematic reviews with and/or without meta-analysis. Methods: Adopting the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines, we evaluated 349 citations and identified 24 eligible reviews with medium to high methodological quality to be reviewed narratively. Results: Most of the reviews reported a high prevalence of anxiety disorders, depression, suicidal behaviour, eating disorders and other mental health problems. Most studies that used data at multiple time points indicate a significant increase in mental health problems in CYP, particularly in females and older adolescents. Conclusions: Multipronged psychosocial care services, policies and programmes are needed to alleviate the burden of mental health problems in CYP as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated global health measures. PROSPERO registration number: CRD42021276312.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Data availability statement: Data sharing not applicable as no data sets generated and/or analysed for this study. As an umbrella review, this work makes use of information provided by the published articles included.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	adolescent,child health,covid-19,mental health,public health, environmental and occupational health,epidemiology,sdg 3 - good health and well-being ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2700/2739
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Norwich Medical School
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Mental Health Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Centres > Lifespan Health
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Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	20 Oct 2023 01:23
Last Modified:	07 Nov 2023 02:47
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/93378
DOI:	10.1136/jech-2022-220259

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