Mental Health Status Among Children in Home Confinement During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Outbreak in Hubei Province, China

Xinyan Xie; Qi Xue; Yu Zhou; Kaiheng Zhu; Qi Liu; Jiajia Zhang; Ranran Song

doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2020.1619

Mental Health Status Among Children in Home Confinement During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Outbreak in Hubei Province, China

JAMA Pediatr. 2020 Sep 1;174(9):898-900. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2020.1619.

Authors

Xinyan Xie¹, Qi Xue¹, Yu Zhou¹, Kaiheng Zhu¹, Qi Liu¹, Jiajia Zhang², Ranran Song¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Maternal and Child Health and Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
² Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia.

Abstract

This cohort study investigates the depression and anxiety of children in Wuhan and Huangshi, Hubei province, China, during the coronavirus disease 2019 lockdown.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

COVID-19
Child
China / epidemiology
Coronavirus Infections* / epidemiology
Disease Outbreaks
Female
Health Status*
Humans
Male
Pandemics*
Pneumonia, Viral* / epidemiology
Quarantine*