Socioeconomic conditions and children's mental health and quality of life during the COVID-19 pandemic: An intersectional analysis.
Adolescents
Health equity
MAIHDA
Socioeconomic disparities
Youth
Journal
SSM - population health
ISSN: 2352-8273
Titre abrégé: SSM Popul Health
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101678841
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Sep 2023
Sep 2023
Historique:
received:
23
06
2023
revised:
20
07
2023
accepted:
21
07
2023
medline:
10
8
2023
pubmed:
10
8
2023
entrez:
10
8
2023
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Children and adolescents are highly vulnerable to the impact of sustained stressors during developmentally sensitive times. We investigated how demographic characteristics intersect with socioeconomic dimensions to shape the social patterning of quality of life and mental health in children and adolescents, two years into the COVID-19 pandemic. We used data from the prospective SEROCoV-KIDS cohort study of children and adolescents living in Geneva (Switzerland, 2022). We conducted an intersectional Multilevel Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity and Discriminatory Accuracy by nesting participants within 48 social strata defined by intersecting sex, age, immigrant background, parental education and financial hardship in Bayesian multilevel logistic models for poor health-related quality of life (HRQoL, measured with PedsQL) and mental health difficulties (measured with the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire). Among participants aged 2-17 years, 240/2096 (11.5%, 95%CI 10.1-12.9) had poor HRQoL and 105/2135 (4.9%, 95%CI 4.0-5.9) had mental health difficulties. The predicted proportion of poor HRQoL ranged from 3.4% for 6-11 years old Swiss girls with highly educated parents and no financial hardship to 34.6% for 12-17 years old non-Swiss girls with highly educated parents and financial hardship. Intersectional strata involving adolescents and financial hardship showed substantially worse HRQoL than their counterparts. Between-stratum variations in the predicted frequency of mental health difficulties were limited (range 4.4%-6.5%). We found considerable differences in adverse outcomes across social strata. Our results suggest that, post-pandemic, interventions to address social inequities in HRQoL should focus on specific intersectional strata involving adolescents and families experiencing financial hardship, while those aiming to improve mental health should target all children and adolescents.
Sections du résumé
Background
UNASSIGNED
Children and adolescents are highly vulnerable to the impact of sustained stressors during developmentally sensitive times. We investigated how demographic characteristics intersect with socioeconomic dimensions to shape the social patterning of quality of life and mental health in children and adolescents, two years into the COVID-19 pandemic.
Methods
UNASSIGNED
We used data from the prospective SEROCoV-KIDS cohort study of children and adolescents living in Geneva (Switzerland, 2022). We conducted an intersectional Multilevel Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity and Discriminatory Accuracy by nesting participants within 48 social strata defined by intersecting sex, age, immigrant background, parental education and financial hardship in Bayesian multilevel logistic models for poor health-related quality of life (HRQoL, measured with PedsQL) and mental health difficulties (measured with the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire).
Results
UNASSIGNED
Among participants aged 2-17 years, 240/2096 (11.5%, 95%CI 10.1-12.9) had poor HRQoL and 105/2135 (4.9%, 95%CI 4.0-5.9) had mental health difficulties. The predicted proportion of poor HRQoL ranged from 3.4% for 6-11 years old Swiss girls with highly educated parents and no financial hardship to 34.6% for 12-17 years old non-Swiss girls with highly educated parents and financial hardship. Intersectional strata involving adolescents and financial hardship showed substantially worse HRQoL than their counterparts. Between-stratum variations in the predicted frequency of mental health difficulties were limited (range 4.4%-6.5%).
Conclusions
UNASSIGNED
We found considerable differences in adverse outcomes across social strata. Our results suggest that, post-pandemic, interventions to address social inequities in HRQoL should focus on specific intersectional strata involving adolescents and families experiencing financial hardship, while those aiming to improve mental health should target all children and adolescents.
Identifiants
pubmed: 37560087
doi: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2023.101472
pii: S2352-8273(23)00137-4
pmc: PMC10407575
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
101472Investigateurs
Deborah Amrein
(D)
Isabelle Arm-Vernez
(I)
Andrew S Azman
(AS)
Antoine Bal
(A)
Michael Balavoine
(M)
Rémy P Barbe
(RP)
Hélène Baysson
(H)
Julie Berthelot
(J)
Patrick Bleich
(P)
Livia Boehm
(L)
Aminata R Bouchet
(AR)
Gaëlle Bryand
(G)
Viola Bucolli
(V)
Prune Collombet
(P)
Alain Cudet
(A)
Vladimir Davidovic
(V)
Carlos de Mestral
(C)
Paola D'Ippolito
(P)
Richard Dubos
(R)
Roxane Dumont
(R)
Isabella Eckerle
(I)
Nacira El Merjani
(N)
Marion Favier
(M)
Natalie Francioli
(N)
Clément Graindorge
(C)
Idris Guessous
(I)
Munire Hagose
(M)
Séverine Harnal
(S)
Samia Hurst
(S)
Laurent Kaiser
(L)
Omar Kherad
(O)
Julien Lamour
(J)
Pierre Lescuyer
(P)
Arnaud G L'Huillier
(AG)
Andrea Loizeau
(A)
Elsa Lorthe
(E)
Chantal Martinez
(C)
Stéphanie Mermet
(S)
Mayssam Nehme
(M)
Natacha Noël
(N)
Francesco Pennacchio
(F)
Javier Perez-Saez
(J)
Anne Perrin
(A)
Didier Pittet
(D)
Klara M Posfay-Barbe
(KM)
Jane Portier
(J)
Géraldine Poulain
(G)
Caroline Pugin
(C)
Nick Pullen
(N)
Viviane Richard
(V)
Frederic Rinaldi
(F)
Deborah Rochat
(D)
Cyril Sahyoun
(C)
Irine Sakvarelidze
(I)
Khadija Samir
(K)
Hugo Alejandro Santa Ramirez
(HA)
Jessica Rizzo
(J)
Stephanie Schrempft
(S)
Claire Semaani
(C)
Silvia Stringhini
(S)
Stéphanie Testini
(S)
Yvain Tisserand
(Y)
Deborah Urrutia Rivas
(DU)
Charlotte Verolet
(C)
Jennifer Villers
(J)
Guillemette Violot
(G)
Nicolas Vuilleumier
(N)
Sabine Yerly
(S)
María-Eugenia Zaballa
(ME)
Christina Zavlanou
(C)
Silvia Stringhini
(S)
Informations de copyright
© 2023 The Authors.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
The authors declare the following financial interests/personal relationships which may be considered as potential competing interests: KMPB is a member of the Advisory Boards for pneumococcal vaccine and varicella vaccine at MSD. All other authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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