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. 2020 Oct 20;117(48):828-829.
doi: 10.3238/arztebl.2020.0828.

Mental Health and Quality of Life in Children and Adolescents During the COVID-19 Pandemic-Results of the Copsy Study

Ulrike Ravens-Sieberer, Anne Kaman, Christiane Otto, Adekunle Adedeji, Janine Devine, Michael Erhart, Ann-Kathrin Napp, Marcia Becker, Ulrike Blanck-Stellmacher, Constanze Löffler, Robert Schlack, Klaus Hurrelmann

Mental Health and Quality of Life in Children and Adolescents During the COVID-19 Pandemic-Results of the Copsy Study

Ulrike Ravens-Sieberer et al. Dtsch Arztebl Int. .
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Figure 1
Figure 1
Self-reported quality of life in children and adolescents before and during the COVID-19 pandemic (low quality of life: score at least 1 standard deviation (SD) below the mean of the standard population, high quality of life: score at least 1 SD above the mean of the standard population). The difference in the quality of life values between both studies had a mean effect size (Cohen‘s f2 = 0.14).
Figure 2
Figure 2
Psychosomatic symptoms in children and adolescents before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. The figure shows the rates of children and adolescents with relevant symptoms at least once every week during the COVID-19 crisis (COPSY study) and during the time preceding the crisis (4).
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