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Journal of Nurse Midwifery and Maternal Health

Volume  7, Issue 3, September – December 2021, Pages 83-85
 

Review Article

Impact of Pandemic on Children’s Mental Health

Shradha Malla1, Mehvish Khalid

1Nursing Tutor, 2Principal, Dev Bhoomi Institute of Nursing, Dehradun 248007, Uttrakhand, India.

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DOI: DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21088/jnmmh.2454.7506.7321.2

Abstract

Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly distressed the existence and health of people all over the world with lots of confirmed cases and hundreds of deaths. Other than physical consequences, the mental illness repercussion of COVID-19 pandemic have accumulated the interest of mental health researchers all over the world (Arslan et al., 2020; Tanhan et al., 2020). Pandemics are well known to trigger/spawn mental health issues, regardless of their nature and type.1 Not only the employed persons but children’s mental health is also affected due to COVID-19. Due to the closure of schools, children extracurricular & outdoor activities has been cut off, that leads mild-severe impact on child mental health like changes in behavior, Changes in sleeping & eating pattern, irritation, anxiety and many more symptoms can easily be seen. Keywords: COVID-19; Mental Health; Children.


Corresponding Author : Mehvish Khalid