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November 12, 2025JCPP AdvancesOpen Access

Trajectories of child emotional and behavioural difficulties before and during the COVID‐19 pandemic in a longitudinal UK cohort

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NWNicky WrightDKDaphne KounaliEPElise Paul

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Overview

Longitudinal cohort study reveals emotional and behavioural difficulties persist in children during COVID-19 pandemic, indicating lasting impacts.

Key Points

  • This research aims to analyze changes in children's emotional and behavioural difficulties before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • Analyzed data from 708 children in a longitudinal birth cohort study.
  • Used multi-level mixed effects models to assess changes in difficulties trajectories.
  • Compared pre-pandemic and during-pandemic emotional and behavioural scores.
  • Emotional and behavioural difficulties increased during infancy, peaking at age 2, then declining.
  • During the pandemic, there was a 35% slower decline in difficulties scores compared to pre-pandemic expectations.
  • At age 8.5, children showed a 9.5-point increase in difficulties scores from pre-pandemic projections.

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Wright et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/692523d9c0ce034ddc3556f9https://doi.org/10.1002/jcv2.70068
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