Table 2.
Studies reporting long-term mental health outcomes
Authors and date | Age group | Setting | Time frame | Symptoms (long), if any | Control group | Number of participants | SARS-CoV-2 infection confirmation |
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Li et al., January 19th, 2021 [39] | Adolescents | Junior and senior high schools in Wuhan | Cross-sectional (March 30th to April 7th, 2020) | Anxiety and depression | None | 7890 | Not reported |
Xie et al., September 1st, 2020 [40] | Students grades 2–6 | 2 primary schools in the Hubei province | Cross-sectional (February 28th to March 5th, 2020) | Anxiety and depression | None | 1780 | Not reported |
Cheah et al., November 1st, 2020 [26] | Parents, and children aged 10–18 y | Households in the U.S. that self-identified as Chinese | Retrospective cohort (March 14th to May 31st, 2020) | Higher levels of perceived racial discrimination were associated with poorer mental health | None | 773 | Not reported |
Gassman-Pines et al., October 1st, 2020 [24] | Parents of a child or children aged 2–7 y | Large U.S. city | Prospective cohort (February 20th to April 27th, 2020) | Increase in parental reporting of daily negative moods | None | 645 | Not reported |
Luijten et al., November 4th, 2020 [28] | Children and adolescents aged 8–18 y | Two Dutch representative samples of children and adolescents in the Netherlands |
Cross-sectional Before COVID-19 (December 2017-July 2018) and during the COVID-19 lockdown (April/May 2020) |
Significantly worse PROMIS T-scores on all domains Depressive symptoms, severe anxiety, and mental and health complaints |
None | 884 | Not reported |
Alves et al., October 23rd, 2020 [21] | Children aged 9–15 y | Virtual visits during “stay-at-home" measures in the U.S. | April 22nd to July 29th, 2020 | Anxiety scores more than 5 standard deviations greater than values from healthy pediatric populations prior to the pandemic | None | 65 | Not reported |
COVID-19 coronavirus disease 2019, PROMIS Patient-Reported Outcome Measure Information System