TY - JOUR
T1 - Dr. Loades and Prof. Reynolds Reply
AU - Loades, Maria Elizabeth
AU - Reynolds, Shirley
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors have reported no funding for this work.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Copyright:
Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2021/1/31
Y1 - 2021/1/31
N2 - It is heartening to see that our rapid systematic review1 is stimulating others to highlight the needs of particular subsets of vulnerable children and adolescents. We found evidence that loneliness in children and adolescents is associated with increased depression and anxiety symptoms both cross-sectionally and longitudinally. We agree with Dr. Morrissette2 that children and adolescents with social phobia merit additional consideration in the 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. Speculatively, we suggest that many children and adolescents who did not have social phobia before the pandemic may begin to experience worries about social situations as schools reopen. Furthermore, we hypothesize that a range of mental health symptoms including social phobia are likely to become more obvious as many pupils return to school.
AB - It is heartening to see that our rapid systematic review1 is stimulating others to highlight the needs of particular subsets of vulnerable children and adolescents. We found evidence that loneliness in children and adolescents is associated with increased depression and anxiety symptoms both cross-sectionally and longitudinally. We agree with Dr. Morrissette2 that children and adolescents with social phobia merit additional consideration in the 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. Speculatively, we suggest that many children and adolescents who did not have social phobia before the pandemic may begin to experience worries about social situations as schools reopen. Furthermore, we hypothesize that a range of mental health symptoms including social phobia are likely to become more obvious as many pupils return to school.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jaac.2020.08.437
DO - 10.1016/j.jaac.2020.08.437
M3 - Letter
C2 - 32890670
AN - SCOPUS:85097374266
VL - 60
SP - 7
EP - 8
JO - Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
JF - Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
SN - 0890-8567
IS - 1
ER -
