Keywords
Anxiety
Adolescents
Covid-19
Pandemic
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Abstract
Objective: To analyze the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on anxiety and depression in adolescents. Methods: Integrative review, in the databases Latin American and Caribbean Literature in Health Sciences (LILACS), Scientific Electronic Library Online (Scielo) and National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health (PubMed). The search was realized in october 2023. The descriptors in health sciences (DeCS) were: depression, anxiety, adolescents, pandemic and Covid-19 and their correspondents in english, with combinations of the boolean operators AND and OR. The inclusion criteria were: publications in Portuguese and English, original studies of a primary nature, freely accessible, available in full and published between 2018 and 2023. Results: This study was carried out through the analysis of 20 articles on the relationship between the Covid-19 pandemic and the symptoms of anxiety and depression in adolescents. The results obtained were presented in the Table 1, which shows authors, type of studies and the main findings. Final considerations: Based on the studies, it was evident that the Covid-19 pandemic resulted in a considerable increase in anxiety disorders and depression in adolescents worldwide.
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