COVID-19 pandemic impact on mental health in children: a call for longitudinal datasets on prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder

ABSTRACT

[...]the authors of the current meta-analysis have correctly pointed out that children and adolescents may be more reliable as informants of self-experience compared to parents or others. The present and past pandemic disasters have demonstrated that socioeconomic and environmental impacts of large-scale infection outbreaks and subsequent medical and public health responses may produce a stressful state of mental health that families and children find traumatic. [...]prompt identification of early pointers to psychological distress and provision of mental health services and clinical interventions to help remediate their symptoms need prioritization. The impact of the initial COVID-19 outbreak on young adults’ mental health a longitudinal study of risk and resilience factors.