Changes in child and adolescent mental health across the COVID‐19 pandemic (2018–2023): Insights from general population and clinical samples in the Netherlands

Child mental health problems in the general population are substantially higher post-pandemic compared to pre-pandemic measurements. In children in psychiatric care mental health problems have increased during the pandemic and are substantially higher post-pandemic than at the start of the pandemic. Longitudinal and comparative studies are needed to assess what the most important drivers of these changes are.