The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly impacted global health, notably exacerbating mental health issues among young people. As societies navigate the aftermath, understanding pre-existing trends and ...

Read more of our coverage of COVID’s fifth anniversary: a critical reflection on lessons learned and future pandemic preparedness; and the problem with brushing off our varied experiences of COVID as ...

Jilly Gibson-Miller receives funding from ESRC, Triumph and UK Research and Innovation funds. The common narrative around teenage behaviour in the UK sets parents up for a fairly sustained period of ...

Children whose schools reopened during the COVID-19 pandemic had significantly decreased mental health diagnoses relative to children whose schools remained closed, according to a new study of schools ...

For seventh-grader Eva Elias, school always served as an escape from a turbulent home life. Eva, who began battling depression at Westchester Academy for International Studies in 2020, didn't think ...

AJ Ferrell, a sophomore at Westland High School, struggled with chronic absenteeism, fighting and other disciplinary issues while she was in middle school. Then, during the pandemic, her mother, ...

In a recent study published in the journal JAMA Network Open, a group of researchers evaluated the incidence, prevalence, and temporal changes in clinically diagnosed depression and anxiety among ...

Women and people who grew up in socioeconomically disadvantaged households consistently reported higher psychological distress throughout their lives compared to men and people from more advantaged ...

American schools and the ways students learn have changed since the height of the COVID-19 pandemic five years ago. Educators nationwide have said that their students returned to classrooms after the ...

In a recent study published in Nature Human Behavior, researchers investigate the impact of video gaming on psychological health in Japan during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Study ...