With the COVID-19 pandemic increasing the risk for adolescent depression, this randomized controlled trial tested online single-session interventions during the pandemic in adolescents from all 50 US states recruited via social media who had elevated depression symptoms.
This is the first study utilizing pre- and mid-pandemic data to assess the psychosocial impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on a cohort of children primarily of racial and ethnic minority groups.
With significant racial inequities existing in access to services for youth with autism spectrum disorder, we spoke with an expert about how those in health care can work together to close these gaps and destigmatize disparities.
Researchers examined the extent cannabis use is associated with magnetic resonance imaging–measured cerebral cortical thickness development during adolescence.
With the national Youth Risk Behavior Survey including questions since 2015 that assess sexual identity and the sex of respondents’ sexual contacts, this has provided the opportunity to assess longitudinal trends that can be generalized to high school students in the US.
The researchers asked this question: Does having multiple prior generations affected by depression increase risk of psychopathology in children, and can it be reliably measured in large, diverse samples using informant-reported family history?
Dr Ben Locwin spoke to Dr Joshua Gear about the impact COVID-19 has had on our collective mental health, how we’re doing with regard to coping with the crisis, substance abuse, and what’s next.
