COVID-19 research platform for children and young people
CoverCHILD deals with the unique situation of children, young people and their families in times of the coronavirus pandemic.
CoverCHILD is a joint project within the Network of University Medicine (NUM) and is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Research Network of University Medicine on Covid-19, FKZ: 01KX2121). The NUM combines the strengths of 36 university hospitals in Germany.
Our lab leveraged the routine data from these partners to investigate if and how COVID19 affected mental health among youths. The technical outcomes are now being transferred into the infrastructures as Dashboard for continuous monitoring of mental health in young people.
Funding
Publications
Silber AS, Platte S, Kumar A, Arora S, Kadioglu D, Schmidt M, Storf H, Chiocchetti AG, Freitag CM. Admission rates and clinical profiles of children and youth with eating disorders treated as inpatients before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in a German university hospital. Front Public Health. 2023 Nov 30;11:1281363. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1281363. PMID: 38098830; PMCID: PMC10720619. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38098830/
Ester Orban, Lydia Yao Stuhrmann, Janine Devine et al. “Are the Kids Alright?” A Systematic Review of Longitudinal Studies on Mental Health and Quality of Life in Children and Adolescents During the COVID-19 Pandemic (August 17, 2023). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4544367 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4544367
Wendel, F., Bender, S., Breitinger, E., Coenen, M., Hummel, J., Immich, G., … Jung-Sievers, C. (2022, June 30). Update: Interventions to build resilience and to ameliorate psycho-social effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on children and adolescents – a systematic review protocol. https://osf.io/hnxyf/