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Widening inequalities in adolescent well-being during and after the COVID-19 pandemic

A large-scale study of more than 500,000 Norwegian adolescents showed that socio-economically disadvantaged adolescents experienced more adverse changes in well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic across a variety of domains, and that these negative changes persisted even after all pandemic restrictions were lifted in Norway.

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Fig. 1: Changes in adolescent well-being during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

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  1. von Soest, T. et al. Adolescents’ psychosocial well-being one year after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in Norway. Nat. Hum. Behav. 6, 217–228 (2022). This paper reports changes in adolescents’ well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic in Norway.

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This is a summary of: Kozák, M., Bakken, A. & von Soest, T. Psychosocial well-being before, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic: a nationwide study of more than half a million Norwegian adolescents. Nat. Ment. Health https://doi.org/10.1038/s44220-023-00088-y (2023).

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Widening inequalities in adolescent well-being during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Nat. Mental Health 1, 530–531 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44220-023-00099-9

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