在COVID-19危机期间探索青少年心理健康 - - 优势和困难
Johanna K Loy1, Janina Klam1, Jörg Dötsch2
1Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
Frontiers in public health
|April 19, 2024
概括
由于COVID-19大流行,青少年的情绪症状恶化,但行为问题有所改善. 强项和困难问卷 (SDQ) 证明在危机期间评估青少年心理健康是有用的.
科学领域:
- 儿童和青少年精神病学
- 心理学 心理学 心理学
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
背景情况:
- COVID-19 疫情对青少年心理健康产生了重大影响,需要评估心理社会福祉的工具.
- 了解青少年在危机期间的优势和困难对于有针对性的干预至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 在COVID-19大流行期间使用"优势和困难问卷" (SDQ) 评估青少年的精神病理症状.
- 评估SDQ在危机环境中的实用性,并将流行病数据与流行病前水平进行比较.
- 检查青少年自我报告和外部评估得分中的基于性别和评分者的差异.
主要方法:
- 德国一项基于学校的监测研究 (B-Fast) 在2020年11月至2021年4月期间评估了664名青少年 (11-17岁) 使用SDQ.
- SDQ分数与大流行前的数据进行了比较,并使用德国和英国的截止值分析了"正常"和"边界/异常"的分类.
- 根据性别,研究了自我评估和外部评估SDQ等级之间的相关性.
主要成果:
- 与大流行前的数据相比,观察到"情绪症状"的显著增加; "行为问题"和"社会行为"显示出改善.
- 青少年的分类根据德国和英国的切断值而有所不同.
- 女性报告了更高的"情绪症状",而男性报告了更高的"过度活跃症状". 自我和外部评级之间的相关性表明中等到高的一致性.
结论:
- 这项研究强调了大流行期间青少年情绪症状的恶化,强调了全面的心理社会评估的必要性.
- 自我和外部评估之间的差异表明,考虑两种观点对于完整的个人资料的重要性.
- 这些发现强调了SDQ在流行病环境中的实用性,以及使用国家特定切线值的重要性.
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