Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on mental health and health behaviors in Swedish adolescents.

Autor:	Chen Y; School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Gothenburg, Sweden., Osika W; Centre for Psychiatry Research, Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm Health Care Services, Sweden., Henriksson G; Department of Data and Analysis, Region Västra Götaland, Sweden., Dahlstrand J; School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.; The Swedish Institute for Global Health Transformation (SIGHT), Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Sweden., Friberg P; School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.; The Swedish Institute for Global Health Transformation (SIGHT), Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Sweden.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Scandinavian journal of public health [Scand J Public Health] 2022 Feb; Vol. 50 (1), pp. 26-32. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Jun 08.
DOI:	10.1177/14034948211021724
Abstrakt:	Aims: There is an urgent need to explore the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on adolescent mental health and health behaviours. To date, there are no such studies on Swedish adolescents. As COVID-19 emerged in the middle of our ongoing 2-year follow-up examination of the Study of Adolescence Resilience and Stress, we had the unique opportunity to use the corona outbreak as a 'natural experiment' to study the impact of COVID-19 on 15-year-old adolescents in Sweden. Methods: Adolescents (baseline age 13.6±0.4 years) were recruited from schools in western Sweden (during the COVID-19 outbreak schools were kept open for those under 16 years of age). The COVID-19 pandemic reached Sweden on 31 January 2020. A total of 1316 adolescents answered the 2-year follow-up survey before (unexposed to COVID-19 pandemic, controls) and 584 after 1 February 2020 (COVID19-exposed). Data on stress, psychosomatic symptoms, happiness, relationships with parents and peers, school and health behaviours were collected. Results: Adolescents reported higher levels of stress and psychosomatic symptoms and lower levels of happiness at follow-up compared to baseline. These changes occurred to a similar extent in both the control and COVID-19-exposed groups. Likewise, the COVID-19-exposed group showed no deterioration in peer relations or relations with parents versus controls. We did not find any significant differences between groups regarding sleep duration and physical activity. Conclusions: Swedish adolescents exposed to COVID-19 during most of 2020 showed no differences in longitudinal changes in mental health, relationships with parents and peers, and health behaviours compared to those not exposed to COVID-19 .
Databáze:	MEDLINE
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