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The Impact of COVID-19 on Adolescents’ Lifestyles, Mental Health, and Financial Strain

A special issue of Children (ISSN 2227-9067). This special issue belongs to the section "Global and Public Health".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (5 February 2024) | Viewed by 2140

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Syed Far Abid Hossain

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Guest Editor
BRAC Business School, BRAC University, 66 Mohakhali, Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh
Interests: market turbulence; COVID-19 pandemic; m-health, sociopsychological stress; coping strategies
Dr. Sang H Lee

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Dean, BRAC Business School, BRAC University, 66 Mohakhali, Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh
Interests: financial regulations; information asymmetry in financial markets; financial development in emerging markets; capital market efficiency and valuation
Dr. Mohammad Nurunnabi

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1. Department of Accounting, College of Business Administration, Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
2. St Antony's College, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 2JD, UK
Interests: COVID-19; global SME; tax; sociopsychological impacts; labor market
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The drastic effect of COVID-19 has changed the world dramatically. The world is not yet out of danger; in China, some universities are still operating online to avoid any inconveniences. Adolescents are one of the groups most affected by the COVID-19 outbreak. There are around 1.3 billion adolescents in the world who faced direct or indirect challenges in terms of either psychological or financial strain during the COVID-19 pandemic. Contemporary research articles have mainly focused on mental issues due to the COVID-19 outbreak; however, a specific focus on adolescents in terms of their sociopsychological issues, mental health issues, lifestyle issues, and financial strain issues is still under-explored. This Special Issue will mainly emphasize the recent psychological and financial strains of adolescents due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In this Special Issue, we invite you to share your expertise as well as the results of your research through articles (original research manuscripts), reviews, and case reports addressing the above challenges.

Dr. Syed Far Abid Hossain
Dr. Sang H Lee
Dr. Mohammad Nurunnabi
Guest Editors

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Children is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

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Keywords

  • adolescents
  • COVID-19
  • pandemic
  • market turbulence
  • mental health
  • psychological issues
  • sociopsychological issues
  • financial strain
  • adolescents’ lifestyle challenges due to COVID-19
  • aggression and violent behavior
  • youth violence
  • adolescent abuse

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Sedentary Behaviour and Physical Activity Levels during Second Period of Lockdown in Chilean’s Schoolchildren: How Bad Is It?
by Ricardo Martínez-Flores, Ignacio Castillo Cañete, Vicente Pérez Marholz, Valentina Marín Trincado, Carolina Fernández Guzmán, Rodrigo Fuentes Figueroa, Gabriela Carrasco Mieres, Maximiliano González Rodríguez and Fernando Rodriguez-Rodriguez
Children 2023, 10(3), 481; https://doi.org/10.3390/children10030481 - 01 Mar 2023
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Objective. The objective of this study was to compare the levels of sedentary behaviour and physical activity in relation to sociodemographic variables of Chilean schoolchildren before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods. This retrospective study considered a non-random sample of 83 boys and [...] Read more.
Objective. The objective of this study was to compare the levels of sedentary behaviour and physical activity in relation to sociodemographic variables of Chilean schoolchildren before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods. This retrospective study considered a non-random sample of 83 boys and 232 girls, and their respective parents, who attended public schools (n = 119) and private schools (n = 196) in Chile. A self-report instrument was applied that included sociodemographic variables, sedentary behaviour (SB), and physical activity (PA) in the second period of the pandemic in 2021. Results. The main results show that pre-pandemic SB had significant differences when compared between sexes, except for television time. During the pandemic, there was no significant difference in television time or telephone time. There were no significant differences by sex before and during the pandemic. When comparing the SB scores, video game time in boys decreased (p < 0.001), as did video game time in girls (p < 0.001), and computer time in boys (p < 0.001) and girls (p < 0.001). Telephone time increased in boys (p < 0.001) and girls (p < 0.001), as did television time (p < 0.001). Likewise, PA increased in boys (Δ + 9.51min) and girls (Δ + 3.54 min) during the pandemic (p < 0.001). Conclusions. Both PA and SB underwent changes according to sex before and during the second period of the COVID-19 pandemic in Chilean schoolchildren. Full article
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