Changes of psychotic-like experiences and their association with anxiety/depression among young adolescents before COVID-19 and after the lockdown in China

Lockdown policies during COVID-19 pandemic have potential adverse psychological impacts on youth. However, little is known about their influence on the changes of psychotic-like experiences (PLEs) among adolescents, nor about the possible association between changes in PLEs and changes in anxiety/de...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Schizophrenia research 2021-11, Vol.237, p.40-46
Main Authors: Wu, Zhipeng, Liu, Zhening, Zou, Zhulin, Wang, Feiwen, Zhu, Mengran, Zhang, Wen, Tao, Haojuan, Ross, Brendan, Long, Yicheng
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adolescent mental health
Anxiety
Anxiety - epidemiology
Communicable Disease Control
COVID-19
Depression
Depression - epidemiology
Humans
Pandemics
Psychotic Disorders - epidemiology
Psychotic-like experiences
SARS-CoV-2
Citations: Items that this one cites
Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:Lockdown policies during COVID-19 pandemic have potential adverse psychological impacts on youth. However, little is known about their influence on the changes of psychotic-like experiences (PLEs) among adolescents, nor about the possible association between changes in PLEs and changes in anxiety/depression symptoms. We investigated these two questions through a longitudinal comparative study. In total, 1825 adolescents were surveyed before COVID-19 and after the lockdown in China (T0, October 20th, 2019 and T1, May 18th, 2020). PLEs, anxiety, and depression were measured with paranoia, anxiety and depression subscales of the Mental Health Inventory of Middle school students (MMHI-60). Within-subjects Wilcoxon test, Spearman correlation test, and Kruskal-Wallis test were adopted. Significant increase in adolescent PLEs scores was observed after the lockdown (Wilcoxon's w = 9.302, p 
ISSN:0920-9964
1573-2509
DOI:10.1016/j.schres.2021.08.020