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

Study on the Changes of Coping Strategies With Stressful Events and Mental Health Level Among Adolescents Before and After COVID-19 Pandemic.

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.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Coping Behavior; Mental Health Issue
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Questionnaires

Detailed Description

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 (Actual): 4300

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• China
  • Guangdong
    • Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, 510080
      • XIAW

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 14 years to 25 years (Child, Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

General adolescents

Description

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.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Number of groups / cohorts

1

Cohorts and Interventions

Group / Cohort	Intervention / Treatment
Questionnaires assessed adolescents; ① Teenagers aged 14-25. ② 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. ③ Have the normal cognitive ability, expression ability, and social participation ability.	Other: Questionnaires; 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.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
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.	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.	Baseline
Mental health	The mental health level of the adolescents will be measured by brief-symptom-inventory with 53-items.	Baseline
Emotional Intelligence status	The Emotional Intelligence status of the adolescents will be measured by Wong and Law EI Scale with 16-items.	Baseline

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
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.	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.	Baseline
Social support	The social support that the adolescent could approach will be measured by Social Skills Rating System with the 10-items.	Baseline

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Wei XIA, PhD
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Wei Xia, PhD, Sun Yat-sen University

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): July 1, 2022
• Primary Completion (Actual): August 30, 2022
• Study Completion (Actual): December 31, 2022

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: June 25, 2022
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: June 25, 2022
• First Posted (Actual): June 28, 2022

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): May 23, 2023
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: May 22, 2023
• Last Verified: May 1, 2023

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: adolescent; mental health; pandemic; coping behavior; stressful life event
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Coronavirus Infections; Coronaviridae Infections; Nidovirales Infections; RNA Virus Infections; Virus Diseases; Infections; Respiratory Tract Infections; Respiratory Tract Diseases; Pneumonia, Viral; Pneumonia; Lung Diseases; COVID-19
• Other Study ID Numbers: L2022SYSU-HL-044

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: YES
• IPD Plan Description: The non-identified IPD will be shared after the outcomes have been published.
• IPD Sharing Time Frame: After the publication of the study
• IPD Sharing Access Criteria: Researchers should contact the PI for approval of the study protocol.
• IPD Sharing Supporting Information Type: SAP

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No