Effects of COVID-19 Lockdown on Social Life and Sleep of Indian School Going Teenagers
Tóm tắt
COVID-19 lockdown has brought a complete shutdown of physical interaction with school friends. There was a need to assess their social and sleep habits during lockdown. A survey form was developed with the help of mentors, teachers and school children and circulated by snowball sampling method. 183 responses from Indian school children of age group between 12 and 17 years, from different states were received. It was found that there was a significant alteration of sleep habits in these school children during lockdown. Many school children reported that parents showed leniency in the phone habits of school children and their interaction with friends on social media remained higher during lockdown. Despite that, they were missing their friends and wanted to meet them in-person and they felt that not doing so, was causing a reduction in focus on academics and concentration and making them lose interest in general activities and even in hobbies. Sleep quality had reduced in Indian school going students during lockdown and decreased parental control on phones was observed. The deterioration in social life of the subjects needs to be addressed and taken care of by proper planning of social interaction with ensuring physical distancing and other precautions. Sleep habits should also be modified properly by spreading awareness by parents and school authorities. Such combined measures would lead to optimal performance of school going teenagers, which seems to have suffered in this lockdown.
Tài liệu tham khảo
Liang L, Ren H, Cao R, Hu Y, Qin Z, Li C, et al. The effect of COVID-19 on youth mental health. Psychiatr Q. 2020;91:841–52.
Fegert JM, Vitiello B, Plener PL, Clemens V. Challenges and burden of the Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic for child and adolescent mental health: a narrative review to highlight clinical and research needs in the acute phase and the long return to normality. Child Adolesc Psychiatry Ment Health. 2020;14:20.
Sawyer SM, Azzopardi PS, Wickremarathne D, Patton GC. The age of adolescence. Lancet Child Adolesc Health. 2018;2:223–8.
Gruber R, Saha S, Somerville G, Boursier J, Wise MS. The impact of COVID-19 related school shutdown on sleep in adolescents: a natural experiment. Sleep Med. 2020;76:33–5.
Arora M, Datta K, Singh SP, Sreedhar L, Mallick H, Sleep Loss in School Children: Fact or Myth. Indian, 2019.
Touitou Y, Reinberg A, Touitou D. Association between light at night, melatonin secretion, sleep deprivation, and the internal clock: Health impacts and mechanisms of circadian disruption. Life Sci. 2017;173:94–106.
Murata S, Rezeppa T, Thoma B, Marengo L, Krancevich K, Chiyka E, et al. The psychiatric sequelae of the COVID-19 pandemic in adolescents, adults, and health care workers. Depress Anxiety. 2020.
Scott HK, Cogburn M. Peer Play. StatPearls [Internet]. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2020. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK513223/. Accessed 11 Jan 2021.
Lee J. Mental health effects of school closures during COVID-19. Lancet Child Adolesc Health. 2020;4:421.
Rundle AG, Park Y, Herbstman JB, Kinsey EW, Wang YC. COVID-19-related school closings and risk of weight gain among children. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2020;28:1008–9.
Sylva K. School influences on children’s development. J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 1994;35:135–70.
Kostyrka-Allchorne K, Holland A, Cooper NR, Ahamed W, Marrow RK, Simpson A. What helps children learn difficult tasks: a teacher’s presence may be worth more than a screen. Trends Neurosci Educ. 2019;17:100114.
Di Bartolomeo G, Papa S. The effects of physical activity on social interactions: the case of trust and trustworthiness. J Sports Econ. 2019;20:50–71.
Ghosh R, Dubey MJ, Chatterjee S, Dubey S. Impact of COVID -19 on children: special focus on the psychosocial aspect. Minerva Pediatr. 2020;72:226–35.
Qi M, Zhou S-J, Guo Z-C, Zhang L-G, Min H-J, Li X-M, et al. The effect of social support on mental health in Chinese adolescents during the outbreak of COVID-19. J Adolesc Health. 2020;67:514–8.
Bates LC, Zieff G, Stanford K, Moore JB, Kerr ZY, Hanson ED, et al. COVID-19 Impact on Behaviors across the 24-Hour Day in Children and Adolescents: Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior, and Sleep. Children (Basel). 2020;7.
Cellini N, Canale N, Mioni G, Costa S. Changes in sleep pattern, sense of time and digital media use during COVID-19 lockdown in Italy. J Sleep Res. 2020;29:e13074.
Blakemore S-J, Mills KL. Is adolescence a sensitive period for sociocultural processing? Annu Rev Psychol. 2014;65:187–207.
Tavares P, Barnard PJ, Lawrence AD. Emotional complexity and the neural representation of emotion in motion. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci. 2011;6:98–108.