Children, the pandemic, and long-term mental health consequences
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8 February 2021Children, the pandemic, and long-term mental health consequences
By now, we have a relatively good general understanding of COVID-19’s physiological effects on children and teens: Compared to adults, fewer young people have gotten the virus, and those infected generally tend to have milder symptoms or none at all. What’s far less known are the pandemic’s psychological effects on this population, both in the short and long term. It’s a question that researchers from Penn’s School of Nursing and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) aim to address in a new Pediatric Nursing paper.
