Creswell, Cathy;
Shum, Adrienne;
Pearcey, Samantha;
Skripkauskaite, Simona;
Patalay, Praveetha;
Waite, Polly;
(2021)
Young people's mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health
, 5
(8)
pp. 535-537.
10.1016/S2352-4642(21)00177-2.
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Abstract
There has understandably been widespread concern about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated restrictions on the mental health of children and young people, with evidence of recent increases in the prevalence of mental health problems.1 Yet there has been relatively little evaluation of how mental health has changed over the pandemic and varied for children and young people living in a range of circumstances. One exception is the Co-SPACE study, a UK-based longitudinal online survey of parents and carers of children and adolescents aged 4–16 years, and adolescents aged 11–16 years, who have been invited to participate monthly since the fifth day of the UK's first national lockdown in March, 2020. Co-SPACE has now run for over a year, and more than 8700 families have provided data using the well validated Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ).2 As the study uses convenience sampling and does not have pre-pandemic data, it cannot answer how the pandemic affected the prevalence of mental health problems. Nevertheless, the collection of monthly data from a population with diverse social and demographic backgrounds provides a unique opportunity to examine how things have changed over time throughout the pandemic, and, crucially, for whom.
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