A Qualitative Exploration of Mental Health Impacts of COVID-19 on Adolescents in the United States: The Public’s Perspective

Meesha Iqbal^1* & Aysha Zahidie²

¹Department of Management Policy and Community Health, UTHealth School of Public Health Houston, USA
²The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan

Dr. Meesha Iqbal, UTHealth School of Public Health Houston, USA.

Keywords: Health, Mental; COVID 19; Coronavirus Disease-19; United States; Mental Hygiene; Adolescents; Youth; Teenager

Abstract

Background: COVID-19 has affected people everywhere. Adolescents may be relatively spared of associated physical sufferings, but not indifferent to the psychological harm caused by quarantine, lockdown, and social isolation. We carried out qualitative exploratory analysis to determine public’s opinions about the impact of COVID-19 on mental health of adolescents, and to learn what people recommended to help alleviate problems through a relatively untraditional platform in the domain of qualitative research which gave us access to wide variety of comments and people’s thoughts.

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