Depression, anxiety: Pandemic takes its toll on young kids High numbers of young Australian children are still experiencing anxiety while learning to live in the new “COVID-normal”, a new survey suggests.
News by Janelle Miles, Danielle O’Neal 6th Apr 2021 9:28 AM
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Subscriber only A quarter of very young Australian children are still experiencing higher than usual levels of anxiety while learning to live in the new COVID-normal , a survey probing the mental health impacts of the pandemic suggests. Queensland and Victorian surveyed more than 370 Australian families with children aged one to five between August and November last year as part of their ongoing COVID-19 Unmasked research.
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