Well-Being Perception during Covid-19 Pandemic in Healthy Adolescents

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Bibliographic Data

ID15471954
AuthorsFrancesca Mastorci (0000-0002-9415-3715, Istituto di Fisiologia Clinica), Luca Bastiani (0000-0003-3467-7362, Istituto di Fisiologia Clinica), Gabriele Trivellini (0000-0002-8342-8736, Istituto di Fisiologia Clinica), Cristina Doveri (0000-0001-7964-6338, Istituto di Fisiologia Clinica), Anselmo Casu (0000-0001-9996-4982, Istituto di Fisiologia Clinica), Marta Pozzi (Azienda Unità Sanitaria Locale di Ferrara), Irene Marinaro (0000-0002-5130-2231, Istituto di Fisiologia Clinica), Cristina Vassalle (0000-0003-3438-6450, Fondazione Toscana Gabriele Monasterio), Alessandro Pingitore (0000-0002-4049-184X, Istituto di Fisiologia Clinica, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume18
Issue12
Pages6388-6388
Publication date2021-06-12
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1661-7827 • E-ISSN: 1660-4601
PublisherMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (PUBLISHER • CH)
DOI10.3390/ijerph18126388
PMID34204811
OpenAlexW3135038759
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited28

The COVID-19 pandemic provided an extraordinary and naturalistic context to observe young people's psychosocial profiles and to study how a condition of environmental deprivation and lack of direct social contact, affects the well-being and health status of adolescents. The study explored whether the COVID-19 outbreak changes, in the short term, the acute well-being perception in adolescents, as measured by a Personalized Well-Being Index (PWBI) and the four components affecting health (i.e., lifestyle habits, social context, emotional status, mental skills), in a sample of early adolescent students. Data from 10 schools were collected on 1019 adolescents (males 48.3%, mean age 12.53 ± 1.25 y). Measurements were obtained at two time points, in September/October 2019, (baseline condition, BC) as part of the "A new purpose for promotion and eVAluation of healTh and well-being Among healthy teenageRs" (AVATAR) project and during the Italian Lockdown Phase (mid-late April 2020, LP), with the same students using an online questionnaire. During COVID-19 quarantine, adolescents showed a lower PWBI ( p p p p p < 0.001). In this study, we have provided data on the personalized well-being index and the different components affecting health in adolescents during the COVID-19 lockdown, showing a general decrease in well-being perception, expressed in lifestyle habits, social, and emotional components, demonstrating detrimental effects in the first phase of quarantine on adolescents' psychosocial profiles. Our results shed new light on adolescence as a crucial period of risk behavior, especially when social support is lacking

Context (archaeology · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Geography · Mental health · Pandemic · Psychiatry · Psychosocial · Social environment · COVID-19 and Mental Health · Demography · Medicine · Mental Health Research Topics · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction · Psychology · Internal Medicine