Co-Space Findings

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The latest reports and papers from Co-SPACE and associated projects will be made available to read and download from this page. Our papers and reports present a range of findings about parent, child and adolescent mental health over the course of the pandemic. Supplementary reports are produced in response to specific requests from policy makers and other organisations.

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Co-Space Findings

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Associations of youth mental health, parental psychological distress, and family relationships during the COVID-19 outbreak in China

Changes in children’s mental health and parents’ financial stress from March 2020 to March 2023

What Happens to Children’s Mental Health and Peer Relationships During Periods of Restricted and Unrestricted Social Interactions?

Changes in UK Parental Mental Health Symptoms over 10 months of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Children and adolescent mental health trajectories during the COVID-19 pandemic: Findings from a year of the Co-SPACE study

Changes in UK pre-schooler’s mental health symptoms over the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic

COVID-19 Pandemic’s Influence on Young People’s Mental Health and Wellbeing

Impact of home confinement on children and young people with ADHD and ASD during the COVID-19 pandemic

Parenting in a pandemic: a qualitative exploration of parents’ experiences of supporting their children during the COVID-19 pandemic

Changes in children’s mental health and parents’ financial stress from March 2020 to October 2022

Children’s mental health symptoms two years after the start of the pandemic: March 2020 to March 2022

Rare neurogenetic conditions and mental health of families during COVID-19

Rapid responses to understand and address children and young people’s mental health in the context of COVID-19

Changes in children’s mental health symptoms from March 2020 to June 2021

Young people’s mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic

Children’s mental health: One year in the pandemic

Changes in children and parents’ mental health: March 2020 to February 2021

Changes in children’s mental health symptoms from March 2020 to Jan 2021

Changes in child mental health throughout the UK’s first COVID-19 national lockdown

Changes in parents’ mental health symptoms and stressors (Jan 2021)

How did the mental health of children change over one month in early lockdown?

Changes in children’s mental health symptoms from March to October 2020

Parent & child concerns about attending school (Oct 2020)

Communication with friends (Sept 2020)

Young people’s concerns about school (Sept 2020)

Parent mental health during lockdown (Nov 2020)

Changes in mental health symptoms (Sept 2020)

School concerns (July 2020)

Pandemic-related worries over time (July 2020)

Emotional & behavioural difficulties in NWE (Oct 2020)

Emotional & behavioural difficulties (June 2020)

Children with ASD (July 2020)

Emotional & behavioural difficulties (July 2020)

Emotional & behavioural difficulties (August 2020)

School concerns (May 2020)

Access to help in relation to parenting (June 2020)

Covid-19 worries and parent stress (June 2020)

Results from the first 1600 participants in Iran

Parent stress & child activities in NWE (June 2020)

Covid stress & support needs (May 2020)

Communication with friends/family (June 2020)

Covid-19 worries & parent stress (May 2020)

Parent stress and child activity (May 2020)

Covid-19 worries & parent stress (July 2020)

Parent stress & child worries (May 2020)

Parent stress & child activities (June 2020)

Parent stress & child activity (April 2020)