A new study, published in jama network open, found that young people and adolescents reported many more mental disorders after the closure of Covid-19 school.
In April 2020, governments closed in almost all countries due to the pandemic, which meant that more than 90% of scholarship recipients were not attending school; In the United States alone, it meant 55. 1 million scholarship recipients were stuck in their homes after the closure of around 124,000 Array
Throughout the pandemic, many experts have warned of the effects of closures on intellectual aptitude.
“Going to school had been a struggle for [some young people with depression] before the pandemic, but at least they had school routines to stick to,” Zanonia Chiu, a licensed clinical psychologist, said in an article in The Lancet. schools are closed, others lock themselves in their rooms for weeks, refusing to shower, eat or leave bed. “
“Children who fought before [the pandemic] are now in greater danger,” psychologist Robin Gurwitch, a professor at Duke University Medical Center, said in an interview with Time magazine.
According to the CDC, in the United States about 7% of 3- to 17-year-olds have been diagnosed with anxiety and 3. 2% in the same age organization suffer from depression, in addition, 7. 4% have a diagnosed behavioral challenge and 9. 4% have ADHD.
And to top it all off, a JAMA Pediatrics editorial reported that between 2012 and 2015, more than part of the academics earned at least part of schoolArray’s intellectual fitness assistance and more than a third won all of their intellectuals at school.
Not surprisingly, other people have anecdotally detected the increase in intellectual fitness disorders as a result of school closures.
Experts also recommend that the accumulation of anxiety and depression, in young people and adults, is also due to a number of other factors, such as social isolation, ina lack of attention and monetary insecurity.
However, we have recently begun to see strong clinical evidence of this accumulation of intellectual fitness problems.
The first study to notice this trend was published in JAMA Pediatrics in April. Researchers from Hubei Province, the country of origin of the pandemic, tested a pattern of 2,330 schoolchildren seeking symptoms of emotional distress.
Young people had been locked up for just over a month (33. 7 days) and even after this short period, 22. 6% reported depressive symptoms and 18. 9% suffered from anxiety.
The most recent study, involving more than 1,200 children, measured intellectual symptoms through a continuous longitudinal examination that collects knowledge of physical and intellectual fitness points related to the adversity of early years of training in China.
Researchers tested mental symptoms, adding anxiety, depression, non-suicidal self-harm and suicidal ideation, plans and attempts before the start of the Covid-19 epidemic in early November 2019 and two weeks after school reopened in mid-May 2020. .
They found that among the mental symptoms, they tried everything, but the anxiety increased significantly after the blockade of Covid-19.
For example, depressive symptoms in young people and adolescents increase from 18. 5% before confinement to 25% later.
Suicide plans have gone from just over 8% to a maximum of 15% and, at most, it is worrying that suicide attempts double between periods, from 3% in November 2019 to 6. 4% in May 2020.
“These effects highlight the intellectual aptitude effects related to the prolonged closure of schools due to the closure of Covid-19 in youth and adolescents in China, which may indicate to other spaces affected through Covid-19 how to prepare in the moment opportune. for the prospective development of intellectual aptitude problems in young people and adolescents who return to school ”, the researchers concluded in their article.
And studies on the accumulation of intellectual fitness disorders are also beginning to emerge in other countries.
For example, a survey conducted through british intellectual fitness charity YoungMinds, which included 2,111 participants up to 25 years of age with a history of intellectual disease in the UK, found that 83% said the pandemic had worsened their condition.
Another test in Canada, which examined the behavior of 1,000 adolescents during the early days of the pandemic, found that adolescents reported the highest levels of tension and anxiety on topics such as school and pandemic itself, as well as increased depression and loneliness. that social isolation was troubling for young people who didn’t feel popular with their peers.
According to the study, adolescents also fed on more pandemic ingredients.
But in America, academics are just beginning to return to school. They were out of school almost six times more than in China and one can only believe the worst thing that can be their intellectual aptitude.
Therefore, it is more than ever to make sure that young people are cared for when they return. Approaching the intellectual aptitude crisis is already a problem, let’s take a look so as not to make it worse.
As Dimitri Christakis wrote in JAMA: “We owe it to our children. In a few years, when they learn about the pandemic, they will hold us accountable. “
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