Children's mental health during the second year of COVID-19 pandemic in Lithuania: Parents' and children's perspectives.

Background: Understanding the long-term consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on children's mental health is needed to deal with it successfully. Our study focuses on the pandemic's impact on children's mental health in the middle of its second year in Lithuania.

Aim: To assess the impact of the pandemic and related restrictions on the mental health of 11-17-year-old children in the second year of the pandemic from the perspectives of children and parents.