How detrimental anxiety is affecting our young generation during the Covid Pandemic

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Research Question: How detrimental anxiety is affecting our young generation during the Covid Pandemic?

Panda, P. K., Gupta, J., Chowdhury, S. R., Kumar, R., Meena, A. K., Madaan, P., Sharawat, I. K., & Gulati, S. (2021). Psychological and Behavioral Impact of Lockdown and Quarantine Measures for COVID-19 Pandemic on Children, Adolescents and Caregivers: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Journal of tropical pediatrics, 67(1), fmaa122. https://doi.org/10.1093/tropej/fmaa122

According to this article, it is fairly normal to experience psychological problems like depression, anxiety, depression, irritability, mood swings among other symptoms amongst quarantined children. There was a systematic review on these publications and planning measures by health authorities. There were many studies done by different electronic databases analyzing psychological/behavioral complications with pre-existing behaviors. The conclusion of all studies obtained were that children with pre-existing behaviors or conditions had a higher probability of worsening of their behavioral symptoms.

El-Khani, A., Cartwright, K., Maalouf, W., Haar, K., Zehra, N., Çokamay-Yılmaz, G., & Calam, R. (2021). Enhancing Teaching Recovery Techniques (TRT) with Parenting Skills: RCT of TRT + Parenting with Trauma-Affected Syrian Refugees in Lebanon Utilising Remote Training with Implications for Insecure Contexts and COVID-19. International journal of environmental research and public health, 18(16), 8652. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18168652

This article is one that is in my best interest. This article talks about Teaching Recovery Techniques (TRT). These are sessions to help parents improve or recover from mental health and their ability to help support their children’s mental health issues. A trial was performed among 119 Syrian refugee children, and they performed tests that resulted in a consistent pattern of children in the TRT program showing a great improvement in their academic performance and emotions, as for the children that were placed on waiting lists etc. They presented signs of depression, anxiety, and stress.

Singh, S., Roy, D., Sinha, K., Parveen, S., Sharma, G., & Joshi, G. (2020). Impact of COVID-19 and lockdown on mental health of children and adolescents: A narrative review with recommendations. Psychiatry research, 293, 113429. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2020.113429

This article states that Covid 19 has brought about a recurring state of fear and anxiety in the young generation and adults. According to this article, this pandemic led to short and long term psychosocial and mental health implications in young generations. The impact in these adolescents is determined by components, like being susceptible to age, education level, economic status, being deprived from school and friends due to an illness etc, a mental illness among more. This article’s main focus is on reviewing similar articles to prevent further spread of the virus and how to cope with our younger generation.

Wu, T., Jia, X., Shi, H., Niu, J., Yin, X., Xie, J., & Wang, X. (2021). Prevalence of Mental Health Problems During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of affective disorders, 281, 91–98. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2020.11.117

This article talks about how Covid 19 has come to change the world's health. A meta-analysis was done to assess changes in health like insomnia, depression, anxiety among others. Information from many databases was gathered to show that the most affected were health caregivers, chronic disease patients, quarantine patients, and covid 19 patients. After all the research gathered, researchers urge that people affected with Covid 19 take the proper help.

MacKenzie, N. E., Keys, E., Hall, W. A., Gruber, R., Smith, I. M., Constantin, E., Godbout, R., Stremler, R., Reid, G. J., Hanlon-Dearman, A., Brown, C. A., Shea, S., Weiss, S. K., Ipsiroglu, O., Witmans, M., Chambers, C. T., Andreou, P., Begum, E., & Corkum, P. (2021). Children's Sleep During COVID-19: How Sleep Influences Surviving and Thriving in Families. Journal of pediatric psychology, jsab075. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1093/jpepsy/jsab075

The main focus of this article is how children’s sleep is being affected by Covid 19. This article speaks of a sleep method- study done on 85 Canadian children of ages between 4-14 by their parents using an online survey. Questions and interviews were done by these children’s parents. Questions about sleep patterns and changes since Covid 19. Surprisingly, some parents stated that their children slept better during Covid 19 pandemic while the majority stated that their children were sleep deprived or anxious due to the pandemic. Many stated that it was due to too much screen time, less exercise that led to anxiety.

Meherali, S., Punjani, N., Louie-Poon, S., Abdul Rahim, K., Das, J. K., Salam, R. A., & Lassi, Z. S. (2021). Mental Health of Children and Adolescents Amidst COVID-19 and Past Pandemics: A Rapid Systematic Review. International journal of environmental research and public health, 18(7), 3432. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18073432

The aim of this article is to determine what are the causes of mental health in children and adolescents due to Covid 19. The goal was to determine the effectiveness of different interventions done during this pandemic Covid 19 and previous ones. These studies showed no matter what type of pandemic it is, they have all reported to cause stress, worry, social and behavioral problems among children and adolescents. Substance abuse, suicide, relationship problems,and academic issues are some of the mentioned issues are the most common in children and adolescents. There were some clubs and other support groups referred to parents to help children and adolescents going through mental health issues due to Covid 19.

Salehi, M., Amanat, M., Mohammadi, M., Salmanian, M., Rezaei, N., Saghazadeh, A., & Garakani, A. (2021). The prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder related symptoms in Coronavirus outbreaks: A systematic-review and meta-analysis. Journal of affective disorders, 282, 527–538. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2020.12.188

This article speaks about Covid 19 and its effects on people with PTSD sindrom. This article was made by some researchers searching in different search engines for studies that show how people with this sindrom show worse medical conditions than a person without.

Wolf, S., Seiffer, B., Zeibig, J. M., Welkerling, J., Brokmeier, L., Atrott, B., Ehring, T., & Schuch, F. B. (2021). Is Physical Activity Associated with Less Depression and Anxiety During the COVID-19 Pandemic? A Rapid Systematic Review. Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.), 51(8), 1771–1783. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40279-021-01468-z

This article’s main focus is Covid 19 and how quarantine and strict social distancing procedures affected people. How being homeschooled and quarantined caused depression and anxiety. After many studies were performed, they were able to notice how physical activity helped with covid 19 symptoms.

Yılmaz, B., Azak, M., & Şahin, N. (2021). Mental health of parents of children with autism spectrum disorder during COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review. World journal of psychiatry, 11(7), 388–402. https://doi.org/10.5498/wjp.v11.i7.388

I really thought it was a great article, it will definitely help for my research paper. This article is focused on children with autism, how these children need a routine to function better and if for some reason they don't stick to their routine, this can lead to a bad day. So for that reason, this article is based on teaching parents how to deal with these changes from covid 19.