Association of Home Quarantine and Mental Health Among Teenagers in Wuhan, China, During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Wei Li; Yuxin Zhang; Jiwei Wang; Akihiko Ozaki; Qingxiao Wang; Yue Chen; Qingwu Jiang

doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2020.5499

Association of Home Quarantine and Mental Health Among Teenagers in Wuhan, China, During the COVID-19 Pandemic

JAMA Pediatr. 2021 Mar 1;175(3):313-316. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2020.5499.

Authors

Wei Li¹, Yuxin Zhang², Jiwei Wang², Akihiko Ozaki³, Qingxiao Wang¹, Yue Chen⁴, Qingwu Jiang²

Affiliations

¹ School of Education, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, China.
² School of Public Health, Key Laboratory of Public Health Safety of the Ministry of Education and National Health Commission Key Laboratory of Health Technology Assessment, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
³ Medical Governance Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan.
⁴ School of Epidemiology and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Abstract

This cross-sectional study investigates the prevalence of depression and anxiety and their associations with lifestyle changes among adolescents in Wuhan, China, during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.

Publication types

Multicenter Study

MeSH terms

Adolescent
COVID-19 / epidemiology*
COVID-19 / psychology
Child
China / epidemiology
Cross-Sectional Studies
Disease Transmission, Infectious / prevention & control*
Female
Humans
Male
Mental Health*
Pandemics*
Quarantine / methods*
Retrospective Studies
SARS-CoV-2*