Annotated Bibliography
Gilligan, C. (2022). Data depicts a rise in students who feel persistent despair. U.S News. Web.
The article notes that a cross-section of state reports shows a worrying trend in the mental health of young people is continuing. Several states, including Indiana, Montana, North Dakota, and Utah, have reported rises in teen depression in their respective states in 2021. The mental health of young people has been a particular source of anxiety since the start of the epidemic; however, worrying trends had already begun before the introduction of COVID-19. Using a supplemental survey conducted by the CDC, this paper analyzes how the epidemic has affected pupils.
The results also show that children who are subjected to racial or ethnic prejudice are more likely to acquire mental health disorders, and that children who are raised in poverty are two to three times more prone to having conditions. Adolescent populations are especially highly vulnerable since the pandemic, and other reasons have led to an increase in juvenile mental health difficulties. Nonetheless, the article’s primary correlation is the finding that depression and anxiety symptoms increased among 80,000 young people throughout the world during the epidemic.
De Oliveira, J. M. R., Butini, L., Pauletto, P., Lehmkuhl, K. M., Stefani, C. M., Bolan, M., Guerra, E. N. S., Dick, B. D., De Luca Canto, G., & Massignan, C. (2022). Mental health effects prevalence in children and adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review. Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing, 19(2), 130–137. Web.
This article examines the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic public health emergency on the mental health of adolescents and has been peer-reviewed. This study sought to address the question regarding the worldwide prevalence of mental health consequences in children and adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic by conducting a systematic review of the relevant literature. The data on coronavirus illness was combed through many databases, and the global literature was compiled by the World Health Organization. Also included were observational studies that looked at how often children and adolescents’ mental health suffered during the COVID-19 epidemic.
After filtering out duplicate information, only 2873 unique studies were left from an initial count of 11,925. Once the remaining studies were eliminated, the researchers were left with only 19. Stress ranged from 7% to 25%, anxiety from 17.6% to 43.7%, sadness from 6.3% to 71.5%, and behavior alterations from 5.7% to 68.5%. The percentage of children and teenagers experiencing mental health impacts during the COVID-19 pandemic varied widely among nations, according to the research outcomes. However, mental health problems seemed to be on the rise. Since the article lends credence to the hypothesis that the troubling trend is affecting adolescents, it is pertinent to the aforementioned press article.
Ravens-Sieberer, U., Erhart, M., Devine, J., Gilbert, M., Reiss, F., Barkmann, C., Siegel, N. A., Simon, A. M., Hurrelmann, K., Schlack, R., Hölling, H., Wieler, L. H., & Kaman, A. (2022). Child and adolescent mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: Results of the three-wave longitudinal COPSY study. Journal of Adolescent Health, 71(5), 570–578. Web.
This article presents a longitudinal investigation of the effects of COVID-19 on psychological health in the German population. It seeks to track how adolescents’ mental and physical health is doing during the COVID-19 epidemic and pinpoint at-risk populations. A population-based poll was used, with waves occurring in May–June 2020 (Wave 1), December 2020–January 2021 (Wave 2), and September–October 2021 (Wave 3). Measures of mental health issues were used to look into the lives of n = 2,097 kids and teens between the ages of 7 and 17 years old.
The results showed that a certain set of adolescents was at an extremely high risk of mental health impairments due to factors including poor parental education, confined living circumstances, migratory history, and parental mental health difficulties. According to the primary findings, the epidemic has contributed to a rise in adolescents experiencing mental health issues and anxiety. This research expands on the previous conclusions using a longitudinal strategy and identifies at-risk demographics, all of which relate to the concerns expressed in the press article.