Impacts of COVID-19 on mental health and substance use in youth and young adults

COVID-19 对青少年心理健康和药物使用的影响

• 批准号: 10312470
• 负责人: Andrea Villanti
• 金额: $ 15.53万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT & ST AGRIC COLLEGE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-04-01 至 2022-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10312470
• 关键词: Address; Adolescence; Adult; Anxiety; COVID-19; COVID-19 morbidity; COVID-19 pandemic; Country; Data; Data Collection; Distance Learning; Distress; Exposure to; Future; Goals; Grain; Home; Household; Infrastructure; Intervention; Loneliness; Longitudinal Surveys; Mental Depression; Mental Health; National Institute of Drug Abuse; Nature; Parents; Persons; Prevention; Research Priority; Risk; Sampling; Schools; Social Interaction; Social isolation; Suicide; Surveys; Symptoms; Time; TimeLine; Tobacco use; Vaccines; Vermont; Work; Youth; college; coronavirus disease; experience; falls; mortality; pandemic disease; peer; prevent; response; stressor; substance use; young adult

PROJECT ABSTRACT Coincident with the start of our project (R21DA051943), the COVID-19 pandemic dramatically altered the lives of youth and young adults. In Vermont, “stay home, stay safe” orders were issued in March 2020, with schools closed for the remainder of the academic year and colleges transitioning to remote learning for the end of the spring semester. Disruptions in social interactions typical of adolescence and young adulthood may have resulted in reductions in peer and school influences that impact substance use; they may also have increased social isolation. Risks associated with reductions in these prosocial influences may be magnified by greater exposure to parental or household influences on substance use during this time. National studies document increases in mental health symptoms in response to COVID-related stressors, highlighting vulnerability for depression, anxiety, loneliness, and suicidality in young adults. Mental health symptoms, in turn, are correlated with tobacco and substance use in youth and adults. Preventing COVID-related morbidity and mortality in young people will require ongoing longitudinal tracking of mental health symptoms and rapid intervention to mitigate their effects on substance use. Our study embodies the infrastructure needed to achieve mental health and substance use surveillance and prevention goals. In line with the “time sensitive” nature of the mechanism, we pivoted to add items on COVID-related experiences, distress, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on substance use in the three survey waves in the parent study. This revision proposes three additional waves of data collection in 1,000 youth and young adults within the current project period to document the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on youth and young adult mental health and substance use from Fall 2020 through Spring 2022. This timeline is also expected to span the release of a vaccine and greater return to in-person school and work. This supplement directly addresses the research priority in NOT-DA-20-047 to use ongoing studies to understand the broad impacts of COVID-19 on substance use: longitudinal surveys collected quarterly in a large sample of youth and young adults will provide fine-grained data on the relationship between COVID-related stressors, mental health, and substance use. Further, given Vermont’s rapid return to in-person school for youth and young adults in Fall 2020, data from this study will provide key information on the potential impact on young people of pandemic-related re-opening efforts across the country.

项目摘要 与我们的项目 (R21DA051943) 启动同时，COVID-19 大流行极大地改变了 佛蒙特州于 2020 年 3 月发布了“呆在家里，保持安全”的命令，其中包括： 学校在本学年剩余时间关闭，大学在年底过渡到远程学习 春季学期典型的青春期和成年初期的社交互动可能会受到干扰。 导致影响药物使用的同伴和学校影响减少； 社会隔离的增加可能会放大与这些亲社会影响减少相关的风险。 在此期间受到父母或家庭对药物使用的影响的国家研究文件。 应对新冠病毒相关压力源的心理健康症状有所增加，突显了人们的脆弱性 年轻人的抑郁、焦虑、孤独和自杀反过来又是相关的。 预防年轻人与新冠病毒相关的发病率和死亡率。 人们将需要持续纵向跟踪心理健康症状并进行快速干预以缓解 我们的研究体现了实现心理健康和药物滥用所需的基础设施。 物质使用监测和预防目标符合该机制的“时间敏感性”性质，我们。 重点添加了与 COVID 相关的经历、痛苦以及 COVID-19 大流行对人们的影响的项目 母研究中三波调查中的物质使用情况本修订提出了另外三波调查。 在当前项目期间收集了 1,000 名青少年的数据，以记录项目的影响 2020 年秋季至春季 COVID-19 大流行对青少年心理健康和药物滥用的影响 2022 年。预计这一时间表还将涵盖疫苗的发布以及更多人重返校园和 本补充文件直接解决了 NOT-DA-20-047 中的研究优先事项，以利用正在进行的研究来进行研究。 COVID-19 对物质使用的广泛影响：纵向了解每季度收集的大型调查 青少年样本将提供有关新冠病毒相关人群之间关系的细粒度数据 此外，考虑到佛蒙特州青少年迅速重返校园。 和 2020 年秋季的年轻人，这项研究的数据将提供有关对年轻人潜在影响的关键信息 全国各地与大流行相关的重新开放工作的人们。