Three years into the pandemic: results of the longitudinal German COPSY study on youth mental health and health-related quality of life.

Autor:	Ravens-Sieberer U; Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany., Devine J; Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany., Napp AK; Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany., Kaman A; Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany., Saftig L; Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany., Gilbert M; Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany., Reiß F; Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany., Löffler C; Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany., Simon AM; Infratest dimap, Berlin, Germany., Hurrelmann K; Hertie School, Berlin, Germany., Walper S; German Youth Institute, Munich, Germany., Schlack R; Department for Epidemiology and Health Monitoring, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany., Hölling H; Department for Epidemiology and Health Monitoring, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany., Wieler LH; Department for Epidemiology and Health Monitoring, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany.; Research Cluster Digital Global Public Health, Hasso-Plattner-Institute, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany., Erhart M; Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.; Department of Public Health, Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences, Berlin, Germany.; Department of Psychology, Apollon University of Applied Sciences, Bremen, Germany.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Frontiers in public health [Front Public Health] 2023 Jun 15; Vol. 11, pp. 1129073. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Jun 15 (Print Publication: 2023).
DOI:	10.3389/fpubh.2023.1129073
Abstrakt:	Purpose: For the past three years, the German longitudinal COPSY ( CO VID-19 and PSY chological Health ) study has monitored changes in health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and the mental health of children and adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: A nationwide, population-based survey was conducted in May-June 2020 (W1), December 2020-January 2021 (W2), September-October 2021 (W3), February 2022 (W4), and September-October 2022 (W5). In total, n  = 2,471 children and adolescents aged 7-17 years ( n  = 1,673 aged 11-17 years with self-reports) were assessed using internationally established and validated measures of HRQoL (KIDSCREEN-10), mental health problems (SDQ), anxiety (SCARED), depressive symptoms (CES-DC, PHQ-2), psychosomatic complaints (HBSC-SCL), and fear about the future (DFS-K). Findings were compared to prepandemic population-based data. Results: While the prevalence of low HRQoL increased from 15% prepandemic to 48% at W2, it improved to 27% at W5. Similarly, overall mental health problems rose from 18% prepandemic to W1 through W2 (30-31%), and since then slowly declined (W3: 27%, W4: 29%, W5: 23%). Anxiety doubled from 15% prepandemic to 30% in W2 and declined to 25% (W5) since then. Depressive symptoms increased from 15%/10% (CES-DC/PHQ-2) prepandemic to 24%/15% in W2, and slowly decreased to 14%/9% in W5. Psychosomatic complaints are across all waves still on the rise. 32-44% of the youth expressed fears related to other current crises. Conclusion: Mental health of the youth improved in year 3 of the pandemic, but is still lower than before the pandemic. Competing Interests: The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. (Copyright © 2023 Ravens-Sieberer, Devine, Napp, Kaman, Saftig, Gilbert, Reiß, Löffler, Simon, Hurrelmann, Walper, Schlack, Hölling, Wieler and Erhart.)
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