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Psychosocial Impact of COVID-19 in Children and Adolescents
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Psychosocial Impact of COVID-19 in Children and Adolescents

A special issue of Children (ISSN 2227-9067). This special issue belongs to the section "Child and Adolescent Psychiatry".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2023) | Viewed by 1554

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Ina Nehring

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Department of Social Pediatrics, Technische Universität München, D-81377 Munich, Germany
Interests: psychosocial stress; overweight; obesity; children; pregnancy; meta-analyses; post-traumatic stress disorder; familial hypercholesterolemia
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Over two years ago, SARS-CoV-2 started to expand globally causing a pandemic with more than 6 million deaths. Worldwide, different measures were established to mitigate the further spreading of the virus: primarily social distancing with all its facets, wearing face masks and different test strategies were more or less arranged and are to some extent still ongoing in some countries.

COVID-19 in itself and parallel measures to avoid a higher incidence have the potential to cause stress and to impact mental well-being. Children and adolescents might have experienced worries about infected family members or even their demise. Further, closing of kindergartens and schools, staying at home for months might have impacted their development and psychosocial wellbeing. Parental stress due to pandemic measures but also to economic impairments might constitute another cause for children’s stress.

With this Special Issue, we would like to give an overview of the worldwide situation of children’s and adolescents’ psychosocial wellbeing related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dr. Ina Nehring
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Children is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • COVID-19
  • children
  • adolescents
  • infants
  • psychosocial stress
  • mental health
  • behavior
  • depression
  • anxiety
  • early life adversity

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COVID-19 Pandemic and Changes in Children’s Behavioral Problems: The Mediating Role of Maternal Depressive Symptoms
by Stacey N. Doan, Anna Beth Burniston, Patricia Smiley and Cindy H. Liu
Children 2023, 10(6), 977; https://doi.org/10.3390/children10060977 - 31 May 2023
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The COVID-19 pandemic has been linked to a range of behavioral problems in children. To date, however, longitudinal studies with data prior to the pandemic are rare, and moreover, few studies have examined the family context. This is notable as evidence suggests that [...] Read more.
The COVID-19 pandemic has been linked to a range of behavioral problems in children. To date, however, longitudinal studies with data prior to the pandemic are rare, and moreover, few studies have examined the family context. This is notable as evidence suggests that mothers were highly vulnerable to the effects of the pandemic, and stress proliferation models would argue that children’s wellbeing are undoubtedly affected by maternal wellbeing. In the current investigation, we examine changes in maternal depressive symptoms and children’s behavioral problems from prior to the pandemic to the first few months of COVID-19 in the U.S. The results suggest a significant increase in children’s internalizing problems and maternal depressive symptoms. Consistent with stress proliferation models, the relationship between COVID-19-related stressors and children’s behavioral problems were mediated by maternal mental health. Full article
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