Burdens and psychosocial consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic for Austrian children and adolescents
„...we found a strong overestimation of COVID-19-associated hospitalization likelihood (>100-fold) across all age groups.
In addition, an alarming lack of positive perspective during the ongoing pandemic is evident across all age groups, including the youngest participants aged 6–10 years. Feelings of anger and annoyance (58.2%), loneliness (46%), and sadness (42.7%) are reported much more frequently than before the pandemic.
On the other hand, only 15.6% reported feeling well (or even better; 2%) since the COVID-19 pandemic. Last but not least, our study shows an alarming 37% of children and adolescents who now report poorer sleep quality than before the pandemic."