COVID-19 pandemic and health related quality of life in primary school children in Switzerland: a repeated cross-sectional study

CONCLUSION: The SOPHYA-study showed that HRQoL, and especially emotional well-being, was lower in 5 to 11-year-old children in Switzerland during the first year of the pandemic compared to the results from the survey conducted in 2014/15. In the year of the pandemic, the scores were lowest at the height of the COVID-19 waves and their associated restrictions. As it cannot be distinguished whether fear of the disease itself or the restrictions caused this decrease in HRQoL, containment policies should keep COVID-19 infections as low as possible, but still enable children to profit from protective factors such as leisure activities, physical activity and social contact.PMID:34797621 | DOI:10.4414/smw.2021.w30071

Source: Swiss Medical Weekly - November 19, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: Bettina Bringolf-Isler Johanna H änggi Bengt Kayser Suzanne L Suggs Alain D össegger Nicole Probst-Hensch SOPHYA-Study Group Source Type: research