The Changes of Coping With Stressful Events Among Adolescents Under the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Wei XIA, PhD4,300 enrolled

Overview

This study aims to describe the changes in coping strategies used by adolescents for stressful life events under the background of epidemic normalization; and explore the causes of coping strategy changes of stressful life events under the background of normalization of the epidemic situation among adolescents.

Under the special background of normalization of the epidemic situation, this paper describes and discusses the subjective feelings, changes in coping strategies, and causes of adolescent stressful life events, and puts forward a coping mechanism model of stressful adolescent events, which reflects the psychological changes of adolescent groups in the era of the epidemic situation and provides the basis for subsequent intervention measures.

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

4,300

Conditions

Coping Behavior Mental Health Issue

Interventions

QuestionnairesOTHER

Participants will be asked to respond to the demographic information sheet, Adolescent Self-Rating Life Events Check List, Coping Inventory For Stressful Situations, Social Skills Rating System, brief-symptom-inventory, and Wong and Law EI Scale.

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 14 YearsMax age: 25 YearsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Aged 14-25 * Chinese nationality, who has lived in China since the outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic, and has experienced or is experiencing the epidemic and its normalization. * Have the normal cognitive ability, expression ability, and social participation ability. Exclusion Criteria: * Be diagnosed with psychological or mental illness. * Incapacitated or unable to provide informed consent. * Patients with severe diseases.

Locations (1)

XIAW

Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Coping strategies used after the pandemic

The Coping strategies used by the adolescents for the stressful life events after the COVID-19 pandemic will be measured by Coping Inventory For Stressful Situations with the 21-items.

Time frame: Baseline

Coping strategies used before the pandemic

The Coping strategies used by the adolescents for the stressful life events before the COVID-19 pandemic will be measured by Coping Inventory For Stressful Situations with the 21-items.

Time frame: Baseline

Mental health

The mental health level of the adolescents will be measured by brief-symptom-inventory with 53-items.

Time frame: Baseline

Emotional Intelligence status

The Emotional Intelligence status of the adolescents will be measured by Wong and Law EI Scale with 16-items.

Time frame: Baseline

Secondary Outcomes

Stressful Life Events after pandemic

The Stressful Life Events experienced by the adolescents after the COVID-19 pandemic will be measured by Adolescent Self-Rating Life Events Check List with the 27-items.

Time frame: Baseline

Stressful Life Events before pandemic

The Stressful Life Events experienced by the adolescents before the COVID-19 pandemic will be measured by Adolescent Self-Rating Life Events Check List with the 27-items.

Time frame: Baseline

Social support

The social support that the adolescent could approach will be measured by Social Skills Rating System with the 10-items.

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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