Public health (or emergency) measures implemented to mitigate COVID-19 may have unintended consequences on the mental health of children and youth.
A large cross-sectional cohort study examined the impact of COVID-19 emergency measures on child/adolescent mental health for children/adolescents with and without pre-existing psychiatric diagnoses.
Parents of children ages 2-18 and self-reporting children/adolescents ages 10-18 indicated changes in mental health across six domains: depression, anxiety, irritability, attention, hyperactivity, and obsessions/compulsions.
By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:
1. Identify the impacts of public health measures on child and youth mental health in a global context.
2. Compare the rates of deterioration and improvement in child and youth mental health in Ontario during the first wave of the pandemic and before the pandemic.
3. Identify the variables associated with deterioration and improvement in child and youth mental health in Ontario during the first wave of the pandemic.
4. Discuss ideas for improving child and youth mental health during subsequent waves of the pandemic.
About the presenter:
Katherine Tombeau Cost, Ph.D. is a research assoiciate in the Department of Neurosciences and Mental Health in the Research Insititue at the Hospital for Sick Children. During her PhD in New Orleans, she worked with rats, studying cognition in pregnancy and motherhood. Accepting a postdoc position in Toronto, she worked on the Maternal Adversity and Neurodevelopment (MAVAN) project, studying maternal cognition and maternal behaviour in humans. Katherine applies innovative statistical methods to understand the differential contributions of biological, psychological, and sociological variables to parent and child mental health.
Intended Audience
Public health physicians, public health nurses, epidemiologists, medical residents, scientists, academic researchers, policy and decision-makers.
For more information or for a record of registration for other Continuing Education purposes, please contact events@oahpp.ca.
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