Accepted for/Published in: JMIR Pediatrics and Parenting
Date Submitted: May 4, 2020
Date Accepted: Jul 7, 2020
Date Submitted to PubMed: Jul 7, 2020
Pediatric mental and behavioral health in the period of quarantine and social distancing (COVID-19)
ABSTRACT
The COVID-19 epidemic has spread rapidly throughout the world and has generated a long-term impact. The pandemic has caused great harm to society and also caused serious psychological trauma to many people. Pediatrics (birth to 18 years of age) are a vulnerable group in this public health emergency, as their nervous systems, endocrine systems and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axes are not well developed. Psychological crises often cause pediatrics to collapse, producing feelings of abandonment, despair, incapacity and exhaustion, and even raising the risk of suicide. Based on the bio-psycho-social model, some pediatrics will have catastrophic thoughts and are prone to experience despair, attack, numbness, flashback and other serious emotional and behavioral reactions. In severe cases, there may be symptoms of psychosis or post-traumatic stress disorder. Timely and appropriate protections are needed to prevent the occurrence of psychological and behavioral problems. Based on the psychological development characteristics of pediatrics, this study illustrates interventions on the psychological impact from the COVID-19 epidemic.
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