The impact of COVID-19 on the mental health of children and young people in the UK

For example, a global, collaborative and constantly updated project, DEPRESSD, has searched for research published in scholarly journals or as preprints on established platforms. The project has screened the titles and abstracts of nearly 74,000 pieces of research on mental health, and—notably—found just 170 studies to be sufficiently rigorous. Some, but not all, suggest increases in anxiety, depression and behavioral problems, and factors jeopardizing mental health, such as poor sleep, reduced physical activity and loneliness.