The impact of COVID-19 lockdown on child and adolescent mental health: systematic review

🤖 Plain-English Summary

COVID-19 was declared a pandemic in March 2020, resulting in many countries worldwide calling for lockdowns. Supporting the mental health needs of children and adolescents at risk is key.

🔑 Key Findings

• This study aimed to review the existing literature on the effects of the lockdown measures established as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of children and adolescents.
• Embase, Ovid, Global Health, PsycINFO, Web of Science, and pre-print databases were searched in this PRISMA-compliant systematic review (PROSPERO: CRD42021225604).
• We included individual studies reporting on a wide range of mental health outcomes, including risk and protective factors, conducted in children and adolescents (aged ≤ 19 years), exposed to COVID-19 lockdown.

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