Muna Al-Shekaili, Salim Al-Huseini, Yahya Al-Kalbani, Hassan Mirza, Moon Fai Chan, Walid Hassan, Fatma Al-Sulimani, Ghaniya Saif Al-Ghafri, Hanan Saif Al-Sumri, Ahmed Bait Amer, Aishwarya Ganesh, Muna Al-Saadoon, Samir Al-Adawi
Reports from different parts of the world suggest that the COVID-19 pandemic and the resultant lockdown and social distancing measures have heralded unprecedented mental health challenges among children and adolescents. To date, there is a dearth of studies emerging from the Arabian Gulf, where the majority of its population are children and adolescents. The study aims to examine the prevalence of anxiety-related symptoms and their covariates among children and adolescents in an Arabian Gulf country, Oman. This is a cross-sectional analytic study carried out over two weeks (1st to 15th of August 2020) during the COVID-19 pandemic across Oman...
April 29, 2024: Scientific Reports