The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of young people:A comparison between China and the United Kingdom  

作　　者：Ming-Bo Liu Geraldine Dufour Zhuo-Er Sun Julieta Galante Chen-Qi Xing Jing-Ye Zhan Li-Li Wu 

机构地区：[1]School of Social Development and Public Policy,Fudan University,Shanghai,200433,China [2]University Counselling Service,Student Services Centre,University of Cambridge,Cambridge,CB30 PA,UK [3]Lab for Post-traumatic Stress Disorder,Faculty of Psychology and Mental Health,Naval Medical University,Shanghai,200433,China [4]The Emotion&Cognition Lab,Faculty of Psychology and Mental Health,Naval Medical University,Shanghai,200433,China [5]Department of Psychiatry,University of Cambridge,Cambridge,CB28AH,UK [6]Shanghai Key Laboratory of Mental Health and Psychological Crisis Intervention,School of Psychology and Cognitive Science,East China Normal University,Shanghai,200062,China

出　　处：《Chinese Journal of Traumatology》2021年第4期231-236,共6页中华创伤杂志（英文版）

基　　金：the National Natural Science Foundation of China[grant numbers:32071086];the Research Project of Shanghai Science and Technology Commission(20dz2260300);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities.

摘　　要：Purpose:As COVID-19 spreads globally and affects people's health,there are concerns that the pandemic and control policies may have psychological effects on young people(age from 17 to 35 years).This psychological impact might vary in different countries,and thus we compared the prevalence of self-reported psychological distress,loneliness and posttraumatic stress symptoms(PTSS)among young people in the United Kingdom(UK)and China at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.Methods:Data of this study came from two sources.One source was the first wave of COVID-19 study in Understanding Society,a special wave of the UK household longitudinal study,which provided the high-quality,national-wide representative panel data.The sample comprised 1054 young people.The other source was an online survey on the mental health of 1003 young people from Shanghai,a highly developed area in China.The questionnaire included questions on the prevalence of common mental disorders(cut-off score≥4),loneliness and potential PTSS(cut-off≥33).Univariable analyses were conducted to test the differences in the self-reported prevalence of psychological distress and loneliness between the two groups.Multivariable logistic regression analyses were run to explore the predictors of psychological distress and loneliness among all the young people from England and Shanghai.Results:Among the samples with self-reported psychological distress,the UK sample accounted for 34.4%(n=1054)and the Chinese sample accounted for 14.1%(n=1003).The difference between the two groups was statistically significant(p<0.001).Additionally,57.1%of people in the UK and 46.7%in China reported that they sometimes or often felt lonely,of which the difference is statistically significant(p<0.001).Regression analysis of the entire samples showed that nationality,gender,psychotherapy and loneliness were significant predictors of 12-item General Health Questionnaire scores,while the variables of age and living alone were not.Significant predictors of self-reported lonelines

关 键 词：COVID-19 MENTAL health Young people LONELINESS POSTTRAUMATIC stress SYMPTOMS 

分 类 号：R395.6[哲学宗教—心理学]