"I couldn't see my friends; the internet was bad, and I hardly went out" - insights into children's and adolescents' experiences of COVID-19 in Germany
CONCLUSION: To bolster children's mental and social resilience in future epidemics, participants' plea for maintaining social and physical interactions with significant others and for keeping schools open should be heeded by policy-makers. Our study also highlights the benefits of conducting direct research with children and using non-verbal methods of data collection.PMID:37930944 | DOI:10.1080/17482631.2023.2271271 (Source: International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being)
Source: International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being - November 6, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Astrid Berner-Rodoreda Nina Baum Kathrin Zangerl Jonas Wachinger Henriette Hoegl Lydia Yao Li Till B ärnighausen Source Type: research

Adolescent social media use: cultivating and constraining competence
This study identifies aspects of social media use that can be targeted to help adolescents engage with social media in ways that cultivate rather than constrain competence.PMID:37910668 | DOI:10.1080/17482631.2023.2277623 (Source: International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being)
Source: International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being - November 1, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Monique West Simon Rice Dianne Vella-Brodrick Source Type: research

Coping with depression: a narrative study of an online depression community in China
CONCLUSION: The findings revealed the coping strategies that were helpful and examined how they functioned for the affected members, which make up for the lack of attention to the individual experiences of depression sufferers in coping research. The findings also have practical implications for the related education and consultation, providing useful insights for doctors and patients. These ways of coping are based on depression sufferer' anonymous narratives, which can be convincing to clients.PMID:37847860 | PMC:PMC10583619 | DOI:10.1080/17482631.2023.2268379 (Source: International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being)
Source: International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being - October 17, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Xin Li Kaibin Xu Source Type: research