That may be especially true for children of color, who saw much steeper increases in mental health issues after school closures.Īmong black students, rates of anxiety nearly doubled from 8.7 percent pre-pandemic to 15.2 percent after school closures. In other words, simply bringing students back to school as it was pre-pandemic may not be enough to undo the mental health consequences of a year of Zoom school.
'Greater public attention to youth mental health issues during this time can help appropriately allocate resources and inform policies to support the well-being of students as schools begin to reopen.' The share of kids who were considered well adjusted by their peer relationships, outlooks, sibling interactions, how relaxed they were, and notions of their futures plummeted amid the pandemic Yet not every school is back to in-person learning, and pediatricians are now urging them: It's time to make a safe plan to bring kids back, before their mental health suffers any worse. It's been a year since kids were sent home from class and whether or not, and how, to reopen schools is still a subject of heated debate in the U.S., resulting in patchwork policies.Īlthough cases among children have increased in recent months as more schools have brought their students back for in-person learning, kids still rarely catch Covid, and even more rarely get seriously ill or die when then do contract the virus. Americans kids' mental health suffered during pandemic 'Zoom school,' with a quarter of children becoming stressed, anxious and angry, a survey of caregivers in Chicago found.Ī third of children and teens were lonely, and only a third of students had 'positive' peer relationships while confined to interacting with them through screens, caregivers said in the Children's Hospital of Chicago study published Thursday.
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