Publications by authors named "Angie Nickel"

Article Synopsis
  • The COVID-19 pandemic had significant negative effects on the daily lives of children and youth, leading to poorer relationships with family and friends, and increased mental health issues such as worsened mood, anxiety, and irritability.
  • A national online survey conducted in Canada from April to May 2022 analyzed self-reported mental health symptoms among children (11-14 years) and youth (15-18 years), focusing on how social factors like relationship quality affected their mental well-being.
  • Results showed that over a third of participants reported worsened mood, anxiety, or irritability during the pandemic compared to before, with poor familial relationships being a significant contributing factor to these symptoms.
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Introduction: On 11 March 2020, WHO declared the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) disease a global pandemic. Governments globally implemented physical distancing measures and closure of public institutions that resulted in varying implications to youth mental well-being (eg, social isolation, reduced extracurricular activities). These impacts may have detrimental short-term and long-term effects on youth mental well-being; care for youth with mental health disorders was already overstretched, underfunded and fragmented before the pandemic and youth are not often considered in mental health initiatives.

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The COVID-19 pandemic negatively impacted the mental health of children, youth, and their families which must be addressed and prevented in future public health crises. Our objective was to measure how self-reported mental health symptoms of children/youth and their parents evolved during COVID-19 and to identify associated factors for children/youth and their parents including sources accessed for information on mental health. We conducted a nationally representative, multi-informant cross-sectional survey administered online to collect data from April to May 2022 across 10 Canadian provinces among dyads of children (11-14 years) or youth (15-18 years) and a parent (> 18 years).

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Background: Sepsis is a life-threatening complication of the body's response to infection. The financial, medical, and psychological costs of sepsis to individuals and to the healthcare system are high. Most sepsis cases originate in the community, making public awareness of sepsis essential to early diagnosis and treatment.

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