精神科医生：临床与治疗杂志

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Depressive Anxiety Symptoms in Hospitalized Children with Chronic Illness at Some Point of the First Italian COVID-19 Lockdown

Ziad Kronfol

COVID-19 is persevering with to unfold across the world, having a right away effect on human being’s each day lives and fitness. Although the understanding of the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on intellectual fitness with inside the popular populace is now properly established, there may be much less statistics on its impact on particular and inclined populations, including kids with persistent illness (CI). We carried out a multi-centered cross-sectional examine amongst pediatric sufferers in six public kid’s hospitals in Italy for the duration of the primary lockdown, with the purpose of assessing the percentage of kids with CI imparting tension and depressive signs and symptoms, and the scientific and demographic traits affecting such symptomatology. We blanketed kids with at the least one persistent condition, without a cognitive delay, elderly among eleven and 18 years. Brief standardized questionnaires were administered for the duration of scientific scheduled visits to display screen tension and depressive signs and symptoms. We determined a completely excessive percentage of kids with slight to severe melancholy and tension signs and symptoms (approximately 68% and 63%, respectively). Our findings spotlight the want to make certain custom designed mental interventions to protect kids with CI from the results of the pandemic (and associated restrictive measures including isolation and social distancing).